Saghani

Abu Hamid Ahmed ibn Mohammed al-Saghani al-Asturlabi (, referred to by at least one source as Ṣāghānī, was a Persian astronomer and historian of science. His name means "the astrolabe maker of Saghan, near Merv". He flourished in Baghdad, where he died in 990.

Works

Al-Asturlabi wrote some of the earliest comments on the history of science. These included the following comparison between the "ancients" and the "modern scholars" :