R. C. Kapoor

Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 034, India


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Did Ibn Sina Observe the Transit of Venus 1032 AD?

by R. C. Kapoor Published on: 22nd July 2026

The Persian polymath Abū ‘Alī Ibn Sīnā (980-1037 AD), known to early Western sources as Avicenna, records in one of his works, Compendium of the Almagest that ‘I say that I saw Venus as a…

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