Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
However, Ibn Al Haytham agreed with the Earth being in the centre of the Solar System at a fixed position. [60] Nasir al-Din, during the 13th century, was able to combine two possible methods for a planet to orbit and as a result, derived a rotational aspect of planets within their orbits. [61]
Markov (telescopic asterisms) (for example: Markov 1 in Hercules) MAXI — Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image. Mayall — Nicholas Mayall (for example: globular star cluster Mayall II orbiting Messier 31, the Andromeda galaxy) Mayer (open star clusters) McC — McCormick Observatory Catalog. MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies.
Nasir al-Din Tusi was born in the city of Tus in medieval Khorasan (northeastern Iran) in the year 1201 and began his studies at an early age. In Hamadan and Tus, he studied the Quran, Hadith, Ja'fari jurisprudence, logic, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and astronomy. [ 18] He was born into a Shī‘ah family and lost his father at a young age.
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.
Almagest. An edition in Latin of the Almagestum in 1515. The Almagest / ˈælmədʒɛst / is a 2nd-century mathematical and astronomical treatise on the apparent motions of the stars and planetary paths, written by Claudius Ptolemy ( c. AD 100 – c. 170) in Koine Greek. [ 1] One of the most influential scientific texts in history, it canonized ...
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 ...
Qotb al-Din Mahmoud b. Zia al-Din Mas'ud b. Mosleh Shirazi (Persian: قطبالدینْ محمود بن ضیاءالدینْ مسعود بن مصلح شیرازی; 1236–1311) was a 13th-century Persian [1] [2] polymath and poet who made contributions to astronomy, mathematics, medicine, physics, music theory, philosophy and Sufism.