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  1. Quṭb al-dīn al-shīrāzī and the development of non-ptolemaic planetary modeling in the 13 th century.Amir-Mohammad Gamini - 2017 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 27 (2):165-203.
    Coming after Muʾayyad al-Dīn al-ʿUrḍī and Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī, Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, a leading figure of the so-called Marāgha school in astronomy, presents his predecessors’ non-Ptolemaic models and criticizes them in his threehayʾabooks. Since his own new models inNihāyat al-idrāk andIkhtiyārāt muẓaffarī are not without difficulties, in his latest book onhayʾa,al-Tuḥfa al-shāhiyya he puts forward his modified models inspired from Ṭūsī’s and ʿUrḍī’s models and produces a series of new models for Mercury and the oscillation of the spheres. Nevertheless, in (...)
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  • The Philosophical Justification for the Equant in Ptolemy’s Almagest.James L. Zainaldin - 2017 - Phronesis 62 (4):417-442.
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  • A Theory of the Knowledge Industry.Hisham Ghassib - 2012 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 26 (4):447-456.
    This article deals with the social production of knowledge in the exact sciences. After defining the term ?exact science?, it delineates the broad dynamic of its history. It, then, offers a socio-economic historical explanation of why the production of knowledge has become a major industry, if not the largest industry, in the last hundred years. The article concludes by drawing a detailed blueprint of the components, mechanisms, and specificities of the knowledge industry.
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