Ali Qushji

Ali Quchtchi or Ali Qushji (Turkish Ali Kuşçu : falconer), from his complete name `Went AD-DIN `Ali ibn Muhammad Qushji ( “alâ” 'AD-DIN : " rise in the religion" in Arab), Mathematician and Astronomer died in 1474 with Istanbul.

Wire of a falconer of Shah Rukh, he was the disciple of Oulough Beg, which regarded it as a son and a close friend, and took part with him in work of the observatory of Samarkand who ended to the publication of the Tables sultaniennes ( zij-e solTâni in Persan), published in 1437 but improved by Oulough Beg until little before his death in 1449.

After the assassination of Oulough Beg by his son Abd ul-Lative case, Ali Quchtchi left with a copy the Tables sultaniennes for Tabriz, near Uzun Hassan (" Hassan the long"), sovereign of the dynasty turkmene of the Aq Qoyunlu (" those of the Sheep S White s").

Uzun Hassan then sent it to Istanbul, near the Othoman sultan Mehmed II Fatih (the conqueror), where it dealt with scientific teaching with the Médersa Aya Sofia (Hagia Sophia, known as Holy-Sophie ).

It is from there that the Tables sultaniennes passed in Europe, the first version while being possibly an anonymous translation in Hebrew, carried out towards 1500 close to Venice.

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Sciences and technology in the Ottoman Empire

Sources

Prince Savant annexes the stars , Frederique Beaupertuis-Bressand, in Samarkand 1400-1500, the city-oasis of Tamerlan: heart of an Empire and a Rebirth , work directed by Vincent Fourniau, editions Differently, 1995, ISBN 2-86260-518-2, ISSN 1157-4488.
the golden age of Othoman astronomy , Antoine Gautier, in Astronomy , (Re-examined monthly founded by Camille Flammarion in 1882), December 2005, volume 119.

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