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Scholars after the Abbasid Era, 12PM Section, Group 8 - Coggle Diagram
Scholars after the Abbasid Era, 12PM Section, Group 8
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Ibn al-Shatir
A Damascene astronomer, mathematician, engineer, and
inventor.
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His most famous work is Kitab nihayat al-sul fi
tashih al-usul (The Final Quest Concerning the Rectification of Principles) which reformed the Ptolemaic models of the Sun, Moon, and planets
Historians have found that his geometric models of planetary orbits are identical to those of Copernicus
Al-Faris
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He had two major contributions to science, one on optics, the other on number theory.
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