Copernicus's model is called sun-centered or heliocentric ... parallels Copernicus's solar calculations. This suggests Copernicus may have adopted Ibn al-Shatir's numerical tables or methods, adapting ...

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 ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: ...