TY - JOUR
TI - A rebuttal of recent arguments for Maragha influence on Copernicus
AU - Blåsjö, Viktor
TI - A rebuttal of recent arguments for Maragha influence on Copernicus
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2018
IS - 17 (2018)
PY - 2018
SN - 2451-3202
C1 - 2543-702X
SP - 479
EP - 497
DO - 10.4467/2543702XSHS.18.017.9337
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-historiae-scientiarum/article/a-rebuttal-of-recent-arguments-for-maragha-influence-on-copernicus
KW - Copernicus
KW - Maragha school
KW - Tusi couple
KW - harmonic motion.