New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance polymath, bears striking resemblance to the one designed by an Arab Muslim ...

Narrator: Serious scientists, like myself, believe our solar system was formed by the collapse ... This theory was known as the heliocentric model. It was controversial as accepted wisdom at ...

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Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...