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Sijzī: Abū Sa ҁīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibnҁAbd al-Jalīl al-Sijzī

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  1. Quest University, Squamish, BC, Canada

    Glen Van Brummelen

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  1. Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, USA

    Thomas Hockey

  2. University of California, Irvine School of Physical Sciences, Irvine, CA, USA

    Virginia Trimble

  3. Rice University, Houston, TX, USA

    Thomas R. Williams

  4. Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, USA

    Katherine Bracher

  5. York Univesity, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Richard A. Jarrell

  6. University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA

    Jordan D. Marché II

  7. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

    JoAnn Palmeri

  8. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Daniel W. E. Green

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Brummelen, G.V. (2014). Sijzī: Abū Sa ҁīd Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibnҁAbd al-Jalīl al-Sijzī. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_1279

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