Arabic in the Sciences
The Final Quest
نهاية السول
Some of Ibn al-Shatir's planetary models match those of the Polish astronomer Copernicus mathematically. The match is established; how it reached him is still debated, and no Latin translation of his book is known.
- Author
- Ibn al-Shatir (d. 1375)
- Field
- Astronomy
- Arabic title
- نهايةُ السُّول في تصحيح الأصول
- Latin title
- None – no Latin translation is known
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Sources
- D. A. King, 'Ibn al-Shatir', Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, via McGill
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 'Nicolaus Copernicus', notes (Swerdlow–Neugebauer vs Blåsjö/Goddu)
- F. J. Ragep, 'Copernicus and his Islamic predecessors' (2007), McGill eScholarship
- V. Blåsjö, sceptical paper on the Maragha–Copernicus link (Utrecht repository)
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