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Photo taken from medieval manuscript by Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi. The image depicts an epicyclic planetary model. The image depicts an epicyclic planetary model. The following is a list of Persian scientists, engineers, and scholars who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age.
Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [ 48] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [ 49][ 50] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran ), [ 48] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
Ulugh Beg's observatory was built according to the plans of the Maragha observatory, which was designed by Nasir al-din al-Tusi. [4] Ulugh Beg's observatory included the largest quadrant principle device. The building was not tall but was allowed a maximal size for the arc of the circle.
Arab scholars at an Abbasid library in Baghdad. Maqamat of al-Hariri Illustration, 1237. Arab scientists and scholars from the Muslim World, including Al-Andalus (Spain), who lived from antiquity up until the beginning of the modern age, include the following.
She married 'Ala' al-Din al-Kasani, a student of her father and an expert of fiqh. Fatima’s dowry was Al-Kasani’s book, Bada'i' al-Sana'i' (The Most Marvellous of Beneficial Things), a commentary that he wrote on her father’s book, Tuhfat al-Fuqaha'. Her father was so impressed by the book that he accepted it as her dowry on behalf of Ala ...
c. 300 BC — star catalog of Timocharis of Alexandria. c. 134 BC — Hipparchus makes a detailed star map. c. 150 — Ptolemy completes his Almagest, which contains a catalog of stars, observations of planetary motions, and treatises on geometry and cosmology. c. 705 — Dunhuang Star Chart, a manuscript star chart from the Mogao Caves at ...
Secondly, August 19 marks the day of the year’s only full moon in Aquarius, the sign of unity, democracy, and progress. And it doesn’t stop there. The August 19 full moon happens to be a ...
Al-Urdi is a member of the group of Islamic astronomers of the 13th and 14th centuries who were active in the criticism of the astronomical model presented in Ptolemy 's Almagest. Saliba (1979) identified Bodleian ms. Marsh 621 as a copy of Al-Urdi's Kitāb al-Hayʾa, based on which he argued that Al-Urdi's contributions predated Al-Tusi.