New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. Disclaimer ...

Did Copernicus borrow his cosmological theory from an earlier Muslim scientist? New research finds striking resemblance between Copernicus’s heliocentric treatise and a Muslim scientist’s cosmological ...