Abu Ma'shar

Abu Ma'shar al-Balkhi, al-Falakī, Ibn Balkhī

Persia (Iraq) 787 – 886

Comments

Astronomy, astrology; Mathematics; the theory of “rays” traveling through empty space to affect objects and events at a distance, which Isaac Newton later proved as Gravity; The “medium” through which he believed the astral energy flowed was called the Aethyr;

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Influences

Ptolemy; Aristotle;

Influenced

Tobias Hess; Johannes Kepler; Helisaeus Roeslin; Isaac Newton;

Groups

Author

practical manuals on astrology;

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