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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 17:53, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Muwaqqit

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The Umayyad Mosque c. 1895

... that religious timekeepers employed by the Umayyad Mosque (pictured) included a 14th-century astronomer who proposed geocentric planetary models mathematically equivalent to models later proposed by Copernicus? Source: "He [Ibn al-Shatir] wrote two zijes and a treatise on theoretical astronomy in which he [...] produced geocentric models mathematically identical to those of Copernicus." (King 1997, p.157)

Reviewed: Nizar ibn al-Mustansir

Created by HaEr48 (talk). Self-nominated at 15:52, 19 January 2020 (UTC).

. Created within the last seven days, more than long enough, hook verified, and really interesting. Amatheur (talk) 19:42, 19 January 2020 (UTC)