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Tusi couple
The Tusi couple (also known as Tusi's mechanism[1][2][3]) is a mathematical device in which a small circle rotates inside a larger circle twice the diameter of the smaller circle. Rotations of the circles cause a point on the circumference of the smaller circle to oscillate back and forth in linear motion along a diameter of the larger circle. The Tusi couple is a 2-cusped hypocycloid.
The couple was first proposed by the 13th-century Persian astronomer and mathematician Nasir al-Din al-Tusi in his 1247 Tahrir al-Majisti (Commentary on the Almagest) as a solution for the latitudinal motion of the inferior planets[4] and later used extensively as a substitute for the equant introduced over a thousand years earlier in Ptolemy's Almagest.[5][6]
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- ^ Saliba, George (2002-07-01). "Greek astronomy and the medieval Arabic tradition: the medieval Islamic astronomers were not merely translators. They may also have played a key role in the Copernican revolution". American Scientist. 90 (4): 360–368. doi:10.1511/2002.27.360.
- ^ Nosonovsky, Michael (2018-08-14). "Abner of Burgos: The Missing Link between Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Nicolaus Copernicus?". Zutot. 15 (1): 25–30. doi:10.1163/18750214-12151070. ISSN 1571-7283. S2CID 135358186.
- ^ George Saliba (1995), "A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam", pp. 152–155.
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