عنوان

Qut b al-Di n Shi ra zi and the configuration of the heavens : a comparison of texts and models

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Niazi , Kaveh

Qut b al-Di n Shi ra zi and the configuration of the heavens : a comparison of texts and models

Dordrecht

Springer

2014

)xiii, 189 pages( : illustrations

Archimedes )Dordrecht, Netherlands(

v.35

As a leading scientist of the 13th century C. E. Qut b al-Di n Shi ra zi wrote three substantial works on hay a )or the configuration of the celestial orbs(: The Limits of Attainment in the Understanding of the Heavens, The Royal Offering Regarding the Knowledge of the Configuration of the Heavens, and The Mu affar Elections. Completed in less than four years and written in two of the classical languages of the Islamic world, Arabic and Persian, these works provide a fascinating window to the astronomical research carried out in Ilkhanid Persia. Shi ra zi and his colleagues were driven by their desire to rid Ptolemaic astronomy from its perceived shortcomings. An intriguing trail of revisions and emendations in Shi ra zi 's hay a texts serves to highlight both those features of Shi ra zi 's astronomy that were inherited from his predecessors, as well as his original contributions to this branch of astronomical research. As a renowned savant, Shi ra zi spent a large portion of his career near centers of political power in Persia and Anatolia. A study of his scientific output and career as a scholar is an opportunity, therefore, for an examination of the patronage of science and of scientific works within the Ilkhanid realms. Not only was this patronage important to the work of scholars such as Shi ra zi but it was critical to the founding and operation of one of the foremost scientific institutions of the medieval Islamic world, the Mara gha observatory. The astronomical tradition in which Shi ra zi carried out his research has many links, as well, to the astronomy of Early Modern Europe, as can be seen in the astronomical models of Copernicus.

History ، Astronomy, Arab

، Qut b al-Shi ra zi , Mah mu d ibn Mas u d, -- 6321 or 7321-0131 or 1131

، Philosophy of Science

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Kaveh Niazi

NO

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