ALBUMAZAR or properly ABU-MAASCHOR (8o5 885), Arab astronomer, was born at Balkh, flourished at Baghdad and died at Wasid in Central Asia. His principal works were translated into Latin: De Magnis Conjunctionibus (Augsburg, 1489) ; Introductorium in Astronomiam (Venice, 1506) and Flores Astrologici (Augsburg, 1488) . He maintained in the first that the world, created when the seven planets were in conjunc tion in the first degree of Aries, will come to an end at a like conjunction in the last degree of Pisces. Albumazar's name is used for the subject of L'Astrologo by Gian Battista del Porta (16o6), a play which was adapted in Albumazar by John Tomkis, played before James I. in 1614, revived by Dryden in 1748.
See Biog. Universelle (Jourdain) ; Lalande, Bibliographie Astron omique; Poggendorff, Biog. literarisches Handworterbuch; Houzeau, Bibl. Astronomique.