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Born In Damascus
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In the early Greek world there were two competing ideas of sight.
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In 1551, Taqi al-Din described a steam turbine with the practical application of rotating a spit.
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In 1574 the Ottoman Sultan Murād III invited Taqī ad-Dīn to build the Istanbul observatory.
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He used errors in various astronomical tables as reasoning for the new project.
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A few months after opening, on the first day of Ramadan, a comet appeared in the night sky.
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Taqī al-Dīn, being an astronomer, was very familiar with optics and the behavior of light.
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Died In Istanbul
