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Islamic Science after the Abbasid Era _10 am_Group 5 - Coggle Diagram
Islamic Science after the Abbasid Era _10 am_Group 5
Mīrzā Muhammad Tāraghay bin Shāhrukh
astronomer and mathematician such as trigonometry and spherical geometry
built observatory which he built in Samarkand.
better known as Ulugh Beg
introduced "Fakhri sextant"- instrument to determine the constants of astronomy Zīj-i Sulṭānī an astronomical table and star catalogue
Non Arab muslim
Al Qushiji
Timurid theologian, jurist, astronomer, mathematician and physicist
presented an alternative planetary model for Mercury
improved work of Nasir Al Din Al Tusi's planetary model
Contributed towards Zìj-i- sultani along with Ulugh Beg and others in the observatory
Non Arab Muslim
found empirical evidence for the earth's rotation through his observation on comets
Al Khafri
Religious scholar and astronomer
contributes some original solutions to the equant problem, three for Mercury and one for the Moon
Non- Arab Muslim, Persian
Al Farisi
Non Arab Muslim, Persian
main interest in optics, mathematics, physics
gave explanation of the rainbow, and an explication of the nature of colours that reformed the theory of Ibn Al Haytham Alhazen
Number theory-on amicable number where new method of factorization and combination method were introduced
popular figure in Muslim legend and a national hero of Iran
born near Eṣfahān, Iran
flourished 7th century,
Ibn al-Shatir
Another name: Abu al-Ḥasan Alāʾ al-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ansari
worked as muwaqqit in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus constructed a sundial for its minaret in 1371/72
astronomer, mathematician and engineer
Arab Muslim
Nasir al-Tusi
Islamic astronomer and mathematician
joined the Mongols who conquered Baghdad.
non-Arab Muslim, Persian
made important contributions to astronomy and wrote many commentaries on Greek texts