Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi, known in Turkish as Takiyüddin, lived from 1526 to 1585 and was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Constantinople. He wrote more than ninety books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics and natural philosophy. In 1574 the Ottoman Sultan Murad III invited him to build an observatory in the capital, where he constructed instruments such as an armillary sphere and mechanical clocks and observed the Great Comet of 1577. His major work from the observatory, Sidrat al-muntah al-afkar, the astronomical tables of Murad III, was prepared from observations made in Egypt and Constantinople to correct and complete Ulugh Beg's fifteenth-century Zij-i Sultani.
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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish: Takiyüddin 1526–1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Constantinople.
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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish: Takiyüddin 1526-1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Constantinople.
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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish: Takiyüddin 1526-1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Constantinople.
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He was the author of more than ninety books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics, and natural philosophy.
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He was the author of more than ninety books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics, and natural philosophy.
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