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    ʿAbu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al‐Dīn bin Alī bin Ibrāhīm bin Muhammad bin al-Matam al-Ansari known as Ibn al-Shatir or Ibn ash-Shatir (Arabic: ابن الشاطر; 1304–1375)...
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    Islamic scholars, including Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Ibn al-Shatir, Muayyad al-Din al-Urdi, and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi. al-Tusi specifically, the plagiarism...
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  • Naburimannu Kidinnu Soudines Greek/Hellenistic Hipparchus Ptolemy Arab Ibn al-Shatir European, 16th to early 20th centuries Tycho Brahe Johannes Kepler Jeremiah...
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    influence can be seen on Bar Hebraeus and Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, in addition to being quoted by Ibn al-Shatir. Al-Urdi contributed to the construction of the...
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    to solve these problems. Scholars such as Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi, Ibn al-Shatir, and Shams al-Din al-Khafri all worked to produce new models for solving...
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    an earlier work by Ibn al-Shatir (d. c. 1375) of Damascus. Copernicus' lunar and Mercury models are also identical to Ibn al-Shatir's. While the influence...
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    scientists held the post of muwaqqit. For example, ibn al-Shatir (1304–1375) and Shams al-Din al-Khalili (1320–1380) formed a team of muwaqqits in the...
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  • (Avempace) Al-Ghazali (Algazel) Al-Marrakushi Al-Samawal Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Ibn Seena (Avicenna) Hunayn ibn Ishaq Ibn al-Banna' Ibn al-Shatir Ja'far ibn Muhammad...
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    Abu'l-Hasan Ibn al-Shatir in 1371, based on earlier developments in trigonometry by Muhammad ibn Jābir al-Harrānī al-Battānī (Albategni). Ibn al-Shatir was aware...
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    especially Shams al-Din al-Khalili (1320–1380) and Ibn al-Shatir (c. 1304—1375), as well as by the Central Asian Ali al-Qushji and Al-Biruni. He wrote...
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    Ibn al-Shatir for example, retain the principle of a rotating sun around the earth12. However, they put in place tools (al-Tusi couple, ibn al-Shatir...
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  • heliocentric model, though he later abandoned the idea.[citation needed] Ibn al-Shatir (1304–1375), in his A Final Inquiry Concerning the Rectification of...
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    centuries by the Arab and Persian astronomers Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Urdi, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, and Ibn al-Shatir for geocentric models of planetary motions closely...
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    Commentariolus was found in an earlier work by Ibn al-Shatir (d. c. 1375) of Damascus. Ibn al-Shatir's lunar and Mercury models are also identical to...
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  • the pulmonary circulation of the blood. Ibn al-Shatir was an astronomer, mathematician and engineer Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya - polymath Damascius - Byzantine...
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    compass, however, Ibn Simʿūn's compass did not feature a compass card. In the 14th century, the Syrian astronomer and timekeeper Ibn al-Shatir (1304–1375) invented...
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  • correction of the zij of Ibn al-Shatir (d. 777 AH/1375 AD). Al-Lum’ah fī ḥall al-kawākib al-sabʻah: A summary of his book “Nuzhat al-Nazir”. His book included...
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    associated with the Maragheh observatory (especially the works of Al-Urdi, Al-Tusi and Ibn al-Shatir). The state of the question as received by Copernicus is summarized...
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  • Ptolemy for every planet except Mercury. Ibn al-Shatir was able to extend this result to Mercury as well. Ibn al-Shatir (1304–1375) of Damascus, in A Final...
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    Aristotelian physics) was separated from astronomy by Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) in the 11th century, by Ibn al-Shatir in the 14th century, and Qushji in the 15th...
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    unparalleled in any other period of Muslim rule. The Arab astronomer Ibn al-Shatir worked as the chief muwaqqit ('religious timekeeper') and the chief...
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    two offices. Some celebrated muwaqqits, including Shams al-Din al-Khalili and ibn al-Shatir, were known to have once been muezzins, and many individuals...
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    (died 1266), Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī (1201–1274), Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236–1311), Ibn al-Shatir (1304–1375), Ali Qushji (c. 1474), Al-Birjandi (died 1525)...
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    the first to realize this was incorrect (during historic time) was Ibn al-Shatir in the fourteenth century and the first to realize that the obliquity...
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    Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish:...
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    had actually stolen ideas from the Arab Islamic astronomer Abu Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Shatir. He is not the only scholar to suggest this. He also claimed that...
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    physician and surgeon who lived in Al-Andalus Alāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ansari (1304–1375), also known as Ibn al-Shatir, prominent Arab astronomer and...
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    polar-axis sundial was constructed by the 14th century Arabic engineer Ibn al-Shatir, a replica of which still exists today, though he was not the inventor...
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    [citation needed] Averroes,[citation needed] Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Mo'ayyeduddin Urdi and Ibn al-Shatir were later incorporated into the Copernican heliocentric...
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    in their mosques and observatories, such as the astrolabic clock by Ibn al-Shatir in the early 14th century. One of the earliest references to a candle...
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