Correlating the two cosmological models, the study suggests Copernicus was heavily influenced by Ibn al-Shatir's astronomy and his ideas that the Earth and other solar planets orbit the sun.

“Ibn al-Shatir’s solar model, with a new eccentricity and epicycles yielding a maximum solar equation of 2;2,6°, parallels Copernicus’s solar calculations.

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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 ...

“Ibn al-Shatir's solar model, with a new eccentricity and epicycles yielding a maximum solar equation of 2;2,6°, parallels Copernicus's solar calculations.