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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 513 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALBUMAZAR , more properly See also:

ABU-MAASCHAR (8o5-885), Arab astronomer, was See also:born at See also:Balkh, flourished at See also:Bagdad, and died at Wasid in Central See also:Asia. His See also:principal See also:works are: De Magnis Conjunctionibus (See also:Augsburg, 1489); Introductorium in Astronomiam (See also:Venice, r5o6); and See also:Flores Astrologici (Augsburg, 1488). He maintained in the first that the See also:world, created when the seven See also:planets were in See also:conjunction in the first degree of See also:Aries, will come to an end at a like conjunction in the last degree of See also:Pisces. See Biog. Universelle (Jourdain) ; See also:Lalande, Bibliographie Astronomique; See also:Poggendorff, Biog. literarisches Handworterbuch; Houzeau, Bibl. A stronomique.

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