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Loading contentNasir al-Din al-Tusi built the great observatory at Maragha, one of the most advanced research institutions of its age. His 'Tusi couple', a way of producing linear motion from two circles, became an important tool of late medieval planetary theory and reappears in the work of Copernicus.
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