Nasir al-Din al-Tusi

Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (1201 – 1274), was a Persian polymath, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian.<ref>Multiple sources: Quotes about Some of the al-Tusi material is known to have reached Rome in the 15th century... but there is no evidence that Copernicus ever saw it.…I personally believe he could have invented the method independently. Owen Gingerich, “Islamic astronomy”, http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/phys/alshukri/PHYS215/Islamic_astronomy.htm (accessed 1 March 2009). quoted in Is Science Western in Origin? C K Raju External links Category:People from Tus, Iran Category:Scientists who worked on qibla determination Category:Iranian Shia scholars of Islam Category:1201 births Category:1274 deaths Category:13th-century Iranian astronomers Category:13th-century Iranian mathematicians Category:13th-century Iranian philosophers Category:13th-century Muslim scholars of Islam Category:Iranian ethicists Category:Scholars from the Ilkhanate Category:13th-century Shia Muslims Category:Astronomers of the medieval Islamic world