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- Publications
- Influence
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's Memoir on Astronomy (al-Tadhkira fi cilm al-hay'a)
- F. J. Ragep
- Art
- 1993
Tusi (1201-1274 a.d.) was an Arabic scholar whose writings became the standard texts in several disciplines for several centuries. They include editions of Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's Almagest,… Expand
Duhem, the Arabs, and the history of cosmology
- F. J. Ragep
- Philosophy
- Synthese
- 1 May 1990
Duhem has generally been understood to have maintained that the major Greek astronomers were instrumentalists. This view has emerged mainly from a reading of his 1908 publication To Save the… Expand
Copernicus and His Islamic Predecessors: Some Historical Remarks
- F. J. Ragep
- History
- 1 March 2007
Based upon research over the past half century, there has been a growing recognition that a number of mathematical models used by Copernicus had originally been developed by Islamic astronomers. This… Expand
Ibn al-Shāṭir and Copernicus: The Uppsala Notes Revisited
- F. J. Ragep
- Philosophy
- 1 November 2016
It has long been recognized that Copernicus’ models in the Commentariolus bear a striking resemblance to those of Ibn al-Shāṭir (14th-c. Damascus). A number of scholars have postulated some sort of… Expand
Book Review: Astronomy in the Middle East, a Brief Introduction to Astronomy in the Middle East
- F. J. Ragep
- Physics
- 1 August 2009
Water in the Middle East: Cooperation and Technological Solutions in the Jordan Valley
- K. Hambright, F. J. Ragep, J. Ginat, David L. Boren
- Geography
- 1 November 2005
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Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
- F. J. Ragep
- 1993
Abū Jacfar Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī was born on Saturday (at dawn according to Riḍawī1), 11 Jumādā I, 597 H./17 February 1201 A.D. in Ṭūs or its environs2 and died in… Expand
cAlīqushjī and Regiomontanus: Eccentric Transformations and Copernican Revolutions
- F. J. Ragep
- Physics
- 1 November 2005
In 1973, Noel Swerdlow presented a new and significant reconstruction ofhow Copernicus arrived at the heliocentric theory. I This reconstruction was based upon several bits of newly-interpreted… Expand