Al-Bitruji
d. 1204
Spanish Arab scholar, also known as Alpetragius, whose writings on astronomy contradicted the ideas of Ptolemy and resurrected those of Aristotle. In 1217 Scottish scholar and mathe...
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The Moslem astronomer Nur al-Din Abu Ishaq al-Bitruji (ca. 1150-1200), also known as Alpetragius, expounded an astronomical system which revived the Eudoxan explanation and denied the Ptolemaic explan...
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Al-Bitruji
Nur al-Din Abu Ishaq al Bitruji