Al-Tusi and Copernicus’ Shared Model

The man who gave Copernicus his best ideas! Nasir al-Din al-Tusi was a 13th-century

Persian polymath who built the Maragheh Observatory—the greatest astronomical center of its time!

He created the 'Tusi Couple'—a brilliant mathematical model that solved planetary motion using geometry.

The shoking part, some historians believe Copernicus 'borrowed' this exact model 250

years later to prove the Earth orbits the Sun! While Europe was barely recovering

from the Dark Ages, Al-Tusi was mapping the cosmos with precision that wouldn't be matched for centuries.

He was the secret architect of the stars, and modern astronomy owes him everything!