Turkey: Scholars at work Work in the observatorium of Taqi al-Din, late 16th century. Miniature from the Shahinshah-nama (History of the King of Kings), an epic poem by 'Ala ad-Din Mansur-Shirazi, written in honor of Sultan Murad III (r. 1574-95)

Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf al-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي, Modern Turkish: Takiyuddin) (1526–1585) was an Ottoman Turkish Muslim polymath. He was the author of more than 90 books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics and natural philosophy.

Taqi al-Din's method of finding coordinates of stars was reportedly more precise from his contemporary Tycho Brahe and Nicolas Copernicus. Brahe is thought to be aware of Taqi al-Din's work.

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