Ancient lunar model (IMAGE)

University of Sharjah

Ancient lunar model

Caption

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.

Credit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Shatir#/media/File:Ibn-al-shatir2.gif

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