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    The Constantinople observatory of Taqi ad-Din, founded in Constantinople (today Istanbul) by Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf in 1577, was one of the largest...
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    Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish:...
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    the Taqi al-Din observatory in Constantinople, and Jai Singh observatory in Jaipur. The region of Alamut was previously held by the Nizaris, a sect of Shia...
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  • accurate instruments Taqi al-Din's values were more accurate. After the destruction of the Constantinople observatory of Taqi al-Din in 1580, astronomical...
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    Ala al-Dīn Ali ibn Muhammed (1403 – 16 December 1474), known as Ali Qushji (Ottoman Turkish : علی قوشچی, kuşçu – falconer in Turkish; Latin: Ali Kushgii)...
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  • Christian influences on the Islamic world (category Christianity in al-Andalus)
    destruction of the Constantinople observatory of Taqi al-Din in 1580, astronomical activity stagnated in the Ottoman Empire, until the introduction of Copernican...
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    by Russian teams. And finally, Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf founded a large observatory in Ottoman Constantinople in 1577, which was on the same scale...
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    Samarqand, Uzbekistan 1442: Beijing Ancient Observatory, China 1577: Constantinople Observatory of Taqi ad-Din, Turkey 1580: Uraniborg, Denmark 1581: Stjerneborg...
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  • Observatory of Taqi ad-Din under Sultan Murad III 1576 – Royal Danish Astronomical Observatory Uraniborg at Hven by Tycho Brahe 1577–80 – Taqi al-Din invents...
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    Zij (category Astronomical works of the medieval Islamic world)
    in the 13th century, the Samarkand observatory in the 15th century, and the Constantinople observatory of Taqi ad-Din in the 16th century. Nearly 100 more...
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