Al-Birjandi
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- A work of al-Birjandi's, Sharh al-Tadhkirah, a manuscript copy, beginning of the 17th century
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- al-Birjandi
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- 1525–1526
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- Islamic Golden Age
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- Naṣīr al‐Dīn al‐Ṭūsī, al-Kashi
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- Safavid Iran
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- Birjand
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- astrologer
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- astronomy
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- 1528-00-00
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Abdal Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Husayn Birjandi () (died 1528) was a 16th-century Persian astronomer, mathematician and physicist who lived in Birjand.
==Astronomy== Al-Birjandi was a pupil for Mansur ibn Muin al-Din al-Kashi, a member at the Samarkand Observatory, otherwise known as The Ulugh Beg Observatory. In discussing the structure of the cosmos, al-Birjandi continued Ali al-Qushji's debate on the Earth's rotation. In his analysis of what might occur if the Earth were moving, he develops a hypothesis similar to Galileo Galilei's notion of "circular inertia", which he described in the following observational test (as a response to one of Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's arguments):
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