@article{0480276d-61c8-4e5e-bfc1-8c06d6180ad9,
author = {Viktor  Blåsjö},
title = {A rebuttal of recent arguments for Maragha influence on Copernicus},
journal = {Studia Historiae Scientiarum},
volume = {2018},
number = {17 (2018)},
year = {2018},
issn = {2451-3202},
pages = {479-497},keywords = {Copernicus; Maragha school; Tusi couple; harmonic motion.},
abstract = {I reply to recent arguments by Peter Barker & Tofigh Heidarzadeh, Arun Bala, and F. Jamil Ragep claiming that certain aspects Copernicus’s astronomical models where influenced by late Islamic authors connected with the Maragha school. In particular, I argue that: the deleted passage in De revolutionibus that allegedly references unspecified previous authors on the Tusi couple actually refers to a simple harmonic motion, and not the Tusi couple; the arguments based on lettering and other conventions used in Copernicus’s figure for the Tusi couple have no evidentiary merit whatever; alleged indications that Nicole Oresme was aware of the Tusi couple are much more naturally explained on other grounds; plausibility considerations regarding the status of Arabic astronomy and norms regarding novelty claims weight against the influence thesis, not for it.},
doi = {10.4467/2543702XSHS.18.017.9337},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-historiae-scientiarum/article/a-rebuttal-of-recent-arguments-for-maragha-influence-on-copernicus}
}