User:Andris

I am a Wikipedian since February 29, 2004 and an administrator since July 29, 2004.

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The Book of Fixed Stars (Arabic: كتاب صور الكواكب kitāb suwar al-kawākib, literally The Book of the Shapes of Stars) is an astronomical text written by Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (Azophi) around 964. Following the Graeco-Arabic translation movement in the 9th century AD, the book was written in Arabic, the common language for scholars across the vast Islamic territories, although the author himself was Persian. It was an attempt to create a synthesis of the comprehensive star catalogue in Ptolemy's Almagest (books VII and VIII) with the indigenous Arabic astronomical traditions on the constellations (notably the Arabic constellation system of the Anwā'). The original manuscript no longer survives as an autograph, however, the Book of Stars has survived in later-made copies. This image from the book shows the constellation of Orion, in mirror image as if on a celestial globe, and is from a copy in the Bodleian Library dated to the 12th century AD.Ilustration credit: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi

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Some pages that I have written or contributed large part of content:

Yan Rudzutak, Uljana Semjonova, Latvian riflemen, Latvian national ice hockey team, Russian national ice hockey team, Darius Kasparaitis, Tom Barrasso, Janis Dalins, Chris Drury, Subset sum problem, Janis Lusis, Holidays in Latvia, List of political parties in Latvia, For Human Rights in United Latvia, Latvian Socialist Party, Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, Category:Latvia and subcategories, Category:Chess and subcategories, Young tableau, Brendan Morrison, Latvian National Independence Movement (LNNK), Eliyahu Rips, Sandra Kalniete, San Jose Sharks, Polynomial time approximation scheme, Arthur-Merlin protocol, Advice (complexity theory), International Congress of Mathematicians, ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, PP (complexity class), Helmuts Balderis, Kremerata Baltica, Displaced person, Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Gödel Prize, Alexander Mogilny, Salaspils, Vladimir Petrov,United Hockey League, Janis Cakste, Gustavs Zemgals, Alberts Kviesis, Karlis Ulmanis, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, Einars Repse, Toffoli gate, Economy of Latvia, Rolandas Paksas, Arturas Paulauskas, De Boor algorithm, Bellman-Ford algorithm, Arturs Irbe, Sandis Ozolinsh, Karlis Skrastins, Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Steiner tree, Extremal graph theory