Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
Persian astronomer (1201–1274)
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- Fame61.9
- Momentum6.9
- Academics rank#232
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Lived 1201–1274, aged 73
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Updated 2026-06-08
A 13th-century Persian polymath who built the math underneath the stars. Al-Tusi wrote the planetary tables that guided astronomy for centuries and is credited with founding trigonometry as its own discipline — work some believe later nudged Copernicus toward heliocentrism.
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Born Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Tusi in 1201, he ranged across disciplines most scholars kept separate: philosophy, medicine, theology, engineering, prose, mysticism. His strides in logic, biology, and chemistry were real, but astronomy was where he left the deepest mark. Al-Tusi produced extraordinarily accurate tables of planetary motion, updated the planetary model, and dismantled parts of Ptolemaic orthodoxy with precision critiques. In mathematics he pushed trigonometry past borrowed tool into standalone field. Ibn Khaldun, writing decades after al-Tusi's death in 1274, called…
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