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Ali Qushji

lived from 1403 to 1474

Ali Qushji was an Islamic astronomer and mathematician, born in what is now Uzbekistan, who worked at observatories in Samarkand and Constantinople and whose results influenced Copernicus to produce his heliocentric system.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Qushji/