New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: ...

an updated planetary model, as well as penetrating critiques of Ptolemaic astronomy. Ibn al-Shatir's use of the Tusi-couple to simulate linear motion influenced Copernicus who produced similar ...