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Binomial coefficients and Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
- Physics
- 2006
Abu Jafar Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn al-Hasan Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was born in Tus, Khurasan (now, Iran) in 17 February 1201 and died in Baghdad 25 June 1274. Al-Tusi was one of the greatest…
Configuring the Universe: Aporetic, Problem Solving, and Kinematic Modeling as Themes of Arabic Astronomy
- PhysicsPerspectives on Science
- 1998
The undoubted truth is that there exist for the planetary motions true and constant configurations from which no impossibilities or contradictions follow; they are not the same as the configurations…
The Two Versions of the Tūs? Couple
- Physics
- 1987
The aim of virtually every theoretical astronomer in the Arab/Islamic tradition was to provide a physical structure, or hayb13 for the universe in which each of Ptolemy’s motions in the Almagest would be the result of a uniformly rotating solid body called an orb.
References
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The First Non-Ptolemaic Astronomy at the Maraghah School
- PhysicsIsis
- 1979
In 1893 Bernard Carra de Vaux published a translation of a chapter of an astronomical text written by Na?jir al-Din al-TUsT (d. A.D. 1274), in which Tus1 proposed a nonPtolemaic model for the moon.1…
Late Medieval Planetary Theory
- PhysicsIsis
- 1966
THIS PAPER IS an attempt to describe and discuss models for representing planetary motion developed in the thirteenth century or shortly thereafter. A series of four articles which have appeared in…