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    The Tusi couple (also known as Tusi's mechanism) is a mathematical device in which a small circle rotates inside a larger circle twice the diameter of...
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    al-Hasan al-Tusi (1201 – 1274), also known as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (Arabic: نصیر الدین الطوسی; Persian: نصیر الدین طوسی) or simply as (al-)Tusi, was a Persian...
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    inversor 3 Kumara-Kampling inversor Tusi couple (1247) according to the diagrams in the translation of the copy of Tusi's original description: Small circle...
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    hypocycloid called Tusi couple was first described by the 13th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in Tahrir al-Majisti...
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    works of al-Urdi, al-Tusi and al-Shatir). It has been argued that Copernicus could have independently discovered the Tusi couple or took the idea from...
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    motion for the Tusi couple. Although it seems that Copernicus used Albert's ideas, he highly relied on Islamic sources for the Tusi couple. Copernicus's...
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    celestial worlds. In the late 13th century, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi created the Tusi couple, as pictured above. Other notable astronomers from the later...
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    translated some of al-Tusi's works from Arabic into Byzantine Greek. Several Byzantine Greek manuscripts containing the Tusi-couple are still extant in...
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    dissatisfying and replaced it by adding a geometrical technique called a Tusi-couple, which generates linear motion from the sum of two circular motions....
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    translated some of al-Tusi's works from Arabic into Byzantine Greek. Several Byzantine Greek manuscripts containing the Tusi couple are still extant in...
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    Nasir Al-Din al-Tusi was the lead astronomer and first director of the observatory. His most notable work was the creation of the Tusi-couple, a geometric...
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  • lemma". Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1201–1274) resolved significant problems in the Ptolemaic system by developing the Tusi-couple as an alternative to the...
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    {2{\sqrt {d/r}}}{1+(d/r)}}} becoming 1 when d = r {\displaystyle d=r} (see Tusi couple). The classic Spirograph toy traces out hypotrochoid and epitrochoid...
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    such straight lines. This circle corresponds to the smaller circle in a Tusi couple. The point midway between the pivots orbits in a circle around the point...
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    technical realization of the motion of the paper strip can be achieved by a Tusi couple (see animation). The device is able to draw any ellipse with a fixed...
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    innovative mathematical device called the Tusi couple. The Maragheh observatory held around 400,000 books salvaged by Tusi from the siege of Baghdad and other...
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    are slightly offset along the crankshaft axis (which creates a rocking couple). Another solution is to use master-and-slave connecting rods, where the...
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    for the appearances of Mercury, showing the multiplication of epicycles using the Tusi couple, thus eliminating the Ptolemaic eccentrics and equant....
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    equant and eccentrics at Maragheh observatory, and introduction of Tusi-couple by Al-Tusi. Alternative models later proposed, including the first accurate...
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    al-Tusi was the director of the Maragheh observatory, and made many new discoveries while he was there. Such discoveries include the Tusi-couple, a system...
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    Mechanisms Beam Cataract Centrifugal governor Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism Link chain Parallel motion Plate...
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    Mechanisms Beam Cataract Centrifugal governor Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism Link chain Parallel motion Plate...
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    Mechanisms Beam Cataract Centrifugal governor Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism Link chain Parallel motion Plate...
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    Mechanisms Beam Cataract Centrifugal governor Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism Link chain Parallel motion Plate...
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    engines power various types of hoists. Refrigeration engines are typically coupled to ammonia compressors. Stationary engines could be classified by the manufacturer...
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    Mechanisms Beam Cataract Centrifugal governor Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism Link chain Parallel motion Plate...
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    Mechanisms Beam Cataract Centrifugal governor Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism Link chain Parallel motion Plate...
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    a planetary nebula that displays delicate, spirograph-like filigree. Tusi couple Knight, John I. (1828). "Mechanics Magazine". Knight; Lacey – via Google...
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  • Rolling Gear Locus (mathematics) Superposition principle Spirograph Tusi couple Rosetta (orbit) "Cissoid" on www.2dcurves.com "Sturm's roulette" on www...
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  • Mechanisms Beam Cataract Centrifugal governor Connecting rod Crank Crankshaft Tusi couple hypocycloidal straight line mechanism Link chain Parallel motion Plate...
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