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File:Shatir500.jpg

Shatir500.jpg ‎(473 × 458 pixels, file size: 246 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

Ibn al-Shatir's model for the appearances of Mercury, showing the multiplication of epicycles in a Ptolemaic enterprise. 14th century CE.

Online source: Microcosmos - Ptolematic Reconstruction (University of Chicago)

Original source: From T.E. Huff, The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China, and the West (Cambridge, 1993)

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Orientation Normal
Horizontal resolution 72 dpi
Vertical resolution 72 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
File change date and time 19:59, 15 July 2012
Colour space Uncalibrated
Image height 473 px
Image width 458 px
Date and time of digitizing 21:58, 15 July 2012
Date metadata was last modified 21:59, 15 July 2012

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