Taqi Al Din
Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf al-Shami al-Asadi ( Arabic : ) (born in Damascus or Cairo in 1526 , died in Istanbul in 1585 ) was a scientist Arabic important. He is the author of several texts on astronomy , the astrology , the mechanical optical and mechanical clocks.
Biography
Taqi al-Din was born in Egypt or Syria in the sixteenth century , he followed his studies in Cairo, Egypt. For some years he was a theologian , and wrote several books on Islam. In 1571 he moved to Istanbul and became the official astronomer of Sultan Ottoman Selim II. After the death of Selim II, Taqi al-Din able to persuade the new Sultan Murad III in the interest of building a new observatory in Istanbul. The observatory was opened in 1577 , the goal is to compete with other European observatories, especially the observatory Danish led by Tycho Brahe.
Al-Din saw a comet , and he thinks it presages a future victory of the Ottoman army. This prediction was wrong, which brought the Sultan Murad angry. The observatory is destroyed in 1580.
It leads to further search, one of his books, Kitab al-al-turuq saniyya fi al-al-ALT ruhaniyya (Book of methods performed on the machines of the mind) is in the tradition mechanical Arabic. He describes how a steam engine rudimentary.
He then resumed the science of ingenium (ilm al-hiyal), he did 63 drawings depicting the mode of operation clocks. It is considered one of the greatest inventors of water pump civilization Arabo-Islamic.
Sources
- The golden age of astronomy Ottoman Antoine Gautier, in L'Astronomie, (Monthly magazine founded by Camille Flammarion in 1882), December 2005, Volume 119.
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