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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf

1526 - 1580

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Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish: Takiyüddin‎ 1526–1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Istanbul. He was the author of more than ninety books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics, and natural philosophy. In 1574 the Ottoman Sultan Murad III invited Taqi ad-Din to build an observatory in the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. Taqi ad-Din constructed instruments such as an armillary sphere and mechanical clocks that he used to observe the Great Comet of 1577. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf is the 169th most popular astronomer (down from 99th in 2019), the 87th most popular biography from Syria (down from 58th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Syrian Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 169 out of 644. Before him are Harlow Shapley, James Ferguson, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, John Goodricke, Nicole-Reine Lepaute, and Margaret Burbidge. After him are Carl Keenan Seyfert, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, James Craig Watson, Giovanni Battista Hodierna, Robert Grant Aitken, and Franz Xaver von Zach.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1526, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 9. Before him are Catherine Jagiellon, Elizabeth of Austria, Rafael Bombelli, Augustus, Elector of Saxony, Benedict the Moor, and Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. After him are Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, Bâkî, Louis Bertrand, Olympia Fulvia Morata, and Matsudaira Hirotada. Among people deceased in 1580, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 8. Before him are Luís de Camões, Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain, Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy, Henry, King of Portugal, Lala Mustafa Pasha, and Ruy López de Segura. After him are Hieronymus Wolf, Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Juliana of Stolberg, Dorothea of Denmark, Electress Palatine, Inés Suárez, and Giovanni Morone.

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In Syria

Among people born in Syria, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 87 out of 210. Before him are Cassius Longinus (213), Youssef Absi (1946), Assef Shawkat (1950), Dündar Ali Osman (1930), Hashim al-Atassi (1875), and Nazim al-Qudsi (1906). After him are Zaki al-Arsuzi (1899), Seleucus VII Philometor (-100), Najah al-Attar (1933), Lu'ay al-Atassi (1926), As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (1163), and Usama ibn Munqidh (1095).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Syria

Among astronomers born in Syria, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ranks 2. Before him are Mariam al-Asturlabi (950).

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