Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf

Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf al-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي, Modern Turkish: Takiyuddin) (1526–1585) was an Ottoman Turkish^[1][2] Although his family al-Asadi, which can still be found throughout present-day Iraq and Syria, suggests descent from a Yemeni tribe. Muslim polymath: He was the author of more than 90 books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics and natural philosophy

Taqi al-Din's method of finding coordinates of stars was reportedly more precise from his contemporary Tycho Brahe and Nicolas Copernicus. Brahe is thought to be aware of Taqi al-Din's work.^[2].

See also

• Islamic science
• Islamic astronomy
• Inventions in the Muslim world

Notes

1. ^ " Chief Astronomer Taqi al-Din was born to a family of Turkish descent in Damascus." Hoffmann, Dieter; İhsanoğlu, Ekmeleddin; Djebbar, Ahmed; Günergun, Feza. Science, technology, and industry in the Ottoman world in Volume 6 of Proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science p. 19. Publisher Brepols, 2000. ISBN 2503510957
2. ^ ^{a b} Ágoston, Gábor; Masters, Bruce Alan. Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire Infobase Publishing, 2009. p. 552 ISBN 0816062595

Further reading

• King, David A.. "Taki al-Din". Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd Ed.) 10: pp. 132–3. 
• King, David A. (1986). A Survey of the Scientific manuscripts in the Egyptian National Library. 5. Winona Lake, IN, USA: American Research Center in Egypt. pp. 171–2. 
• Hassan, Ahmad Y (1976). Taqi al-Din and Arabic Mechanical Engineering. Institute for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo University. 
• Gautier, Antoine (December 2005). "L'âge d'or de l'astronomie ottomane". L'Astronomie 119. 

External links

• Fazlıoğlu, İhsan (2007). "Taqī al‐Dīn Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zayn al‐Dīn Maʿrūf al‐Dimashqī al‐Ḥanafī". In Thomas Hockey et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. New York: Springer. pp. 1122–3. ISBN 9780387310220. http://islamsci.mcgill.ca/RASI/BEA/Taqi_al-Din_BEA.htm.  (PDF version)