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Description Ibn al-Shatir's model for the appearances of Mercury, showing the multiplication of epicycles in a Ptolemaic enterprise. 14th century CE.
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Source Online source: Microcosmos - Ptolematic Reconstruction (University of Chicago), Original source: From T.E. Huff, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West (Cambridge, 1993)
Author T.E. Huff

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10:18, 21 June 2006Thumbnail for version as of 10:18, 21 June 2006485 × 650 (148 KB)Konstable~commonswiki== Summary == Ibn al-Shatir's model for the appearances of Mercury, showing the multiplication of epicycles in a Ptolemaic enterprise. 14th century CE. '''Online source:''' [http://microcosmos.uchicago.edu/ptolemy/islam.html Microcos

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