scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1110547

MaRDI QIDQ4375085zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors F. Jamil Ragep

Publication date 11 February 1998

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological physicsṬūsī couple

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30)

Review text

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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• Taking latitude with Ptolemy: Jamshīd al-Kāshī novel geometric model of the motions of the inferior planets
• Two Persian Astronomical Treatises by Nas?r al-D?n al T?s?
• Planetary latitudes in medieval Islamic astronomy: an analysis of the non-Ptolemaic latitude parameter values in the Maragha and Samarqand astronomical traditions
• The Spherical Case of the Tūsī Couple

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