Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī and the Configuration of the Heavens: A by Kaveh Niazi

As a number one scientist of the thirteenth century C. E. Quṭb al-Dīn Shīrāzī wrote 3 great works on hay’a (or the configuration of the celestial orbs):  Nihāyat al-idrāk fī dirāyat al-aflāk (“The Limits of Attainment within the realizing of the Heavens”), al-Tuḥfa al-shāhīya fī ‘ilm al-hay’a (“The Royal delivering in regards to the wisdom of the Configuration of the Heavens”), and Ikhtīyārāt-i Muẓaffarī (“The Muẓaffarī Elections”).  accomplished in lower than 4 years and written in of the classical languages of the Islamic international, Arabic and Persian, those works offer a desirable window to the astronomical learn performed in Ilkhanid Persia. Shīrāzī and his colleagues have been pushed by means of their wish to rid Ptolemaic astronomy from its perceived shortcomings.  An fascinating path of revisions and emendations in Shīrāzī’s hay’a texts serves to focus on either these gains of Shīrāzī's astronomy that have been inherited from his predecessors, in addition to his unique contributions to this department of astronomical learn. As a popular savant, Shīrāzī spent a wide part of his profession close to facilities of political strength in Persia and Anatolia.  A learn of his medical output and occupation as a student is a chance, hence, for an exam of the patronage of technology and of medical works in the Ilkhanid geographical regions. not just used to be this patronage vital to the paintings of students resembling Shīrāzī however it was once severe to the founding and operation of 1 of the main clinical associations of the medieval Islamic international, the Marāgha observatory. The astronomical culture during which Shīrāzī conducted his study has many hyperlinks, besides, to the astronomy of Early glossy Europe, as might be visible within the astronomical types of Copernicus.