New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance polymath, bears striking resemblance to the one designed by an Arab Muslim ...

Way before Man stepped on the moon and gazed afar at our planet, Muslim scholars knew that the Earth was round. While many people still think that the Earth is flat, several Arab scientists tried to ...

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. New research has ...