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Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Kathir al-Farghani
. (800/805-870) also known as Alfraganus in the West, was an Arab〔''Science'', The Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 2, ed. P. M. Holt, Ann K. S. Lambton, Bernard Lewis, (Cambridge University Press, 1978), 760.〕 or Persian〔Sir Patrick Moore, ''The Data Book of Astronomy'',CRC Press,2000,BG 48ref Henry Corbin, ''The Voyage and the Messenger: Iran and Philosophy'', North Atlantic Books, 1998, pg 44〕〔''Texts, Documents and Artefacts: Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards''. Edited by Chase F. Robinson, Brill Academic Publishers, BG 25.〕 Sunni Muslim astronomer, and one of the most famous astronomers in the 9th century. The crater Alfraganus on the Moon is named after him.
==Life==
He was involved in the calculation of the diameter of the Earth by the measurement of the meridian arc length, together with a team of scientists under the patronage of al-Ma'mūn in Baghdad. Later he moved to Cairo, where he composed a treatise on the astrolabe around 856. There he also supervised the construction of the large Nilometer on the island of al-Rawda (in Old Cairo) in the year 861.
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