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Al-Khwārizmī and annular solar eclipse

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Communicated by George Saliba.

This article is a developed part of my Ph.D. dissertation titled: «La théorie des éclipses solaires chez des savants de l’est de l’empire musulman (IXe-début du XIe siècles): contribution à l’étude de la phase islamique de l’astronomie» (Dir. Prof. Ahmed Djebbar), Université de Lille 1, 2009.

An erratum to this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00407-011-0084-3

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Giahi Yazdi, HR. Al-Khwārizmī and annular solar eclipse. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 65, 499–517 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-011-0080-7

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