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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110547
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110547 |
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11 February 1998
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cosmological physics
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Ṭūsī couple
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The author insists that the revisions of Ptolemy's constructions by Muslim astronomers are not to be considered as mathematical exercises but as genuine constructions in cosmological physics. He gives a detailed analysis of the well-known Ṭūsī couple to create a rectilinear motion out of two uniform circular motions (and its extension to spheres), then he treats the modification of that idea by Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī himself to create motion on a great circle by the same principle and shows why it fails. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0881.00050].
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