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Islamic Science After the Abbasid Era- 12pm- Group 7 - Coggle Diagram
Islamic Science After the Abbasid Era- 12pm- Group 7
Al-Tusi
Regarded by Ibn Khaldun as the greatest of the later Persian scholars
Polymath and prolific writer
Convinced Hulagu to build an observatory
Made important contributions in observations and in theory, which were later used by Ibn al-Shatir and Copernicus in their planetary theories
Al-Farisi
Mathematician, physicist
Important contributions in numbers theory and optics
Revised Ibn al-Haythams's Kitab al-Manazir
Produced the first mathematically correct explanation of the rainbow
Ibn al-Shatir
Astronomer, mathematician, engineer and inventor
Worked as the Muwaqqit of the Great Umayyad Mosque
Most important work was Kitab nihayat al-sul fi tashih al-usul
His geometric models of planetary orbits for the Moon, Mercury and Venus-identical to those of Copernicus
Al-Qushji
Astronomer, mathematician, physicist
Known partly for attempting to answer the question of Earth's rotation
Concluded that there is no scientific reason to reject the moving Earth theory
Improved on Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's planetary model, presenting and alternative model for Mercury
Al-Khafri
Theoretical astronomer and religious scholar
Considered by Saliba to be "one of the most competent of all the mathematical astronomers and planetary theorists of medieval Islam
Represents the culmination of the Maragha scholar of astronomy