The Amazigh scholar Ibn Suleiman Al-Rodani
The Amazigh scientist, Ibn Suleiman Al-Roudani, the owner of the Rodanian globe, which is an accurate astronomical globe by which the time is known in all countries.. and it replaces many calculations and engineering instruments..
The Rodanian ball, despite more than three and a half centuries having passed since its invention, is still the focus of attention of many Western scholars in their research and scientific articles on university campuses...
The special ball has scientific, functional and technical specifications that qualify it to occupy the highest rank among the ranks of historical inventions that had a special impact on the development of astronomy.
It is the ball that was invented by the Moroccan jurist, mathematician and astronomer Ibn Sulaiman Al-Rawdani Al-Sousi... who was born in the city of Taroudant, the capital of Souss, in the year 1627 AD... and continued his studies in Sijilmasa and Marrakesh... and learned from the scholars of Egypt and the Levant... and stayed for a period of time in Mecca, Medina and Constantinople. Also in various tasks, one of which is the Mufti of the Two Holy Mosques.
This man excelled in the sciences of narrations and intelligibles. He also wrote valuable books, including:
• Collecting interest from the asset collector and the excess collector
• Students’ joy in working with the astrolabe
He also wrote a treatise explaining the use of this instrument, the details of which we are about to mention, and he called it “Al-Naqi’ah on the Universal Machine”...
This scientific globe was put up for bidding at Christie’s in London in 2015 AD, within the “Arts of the Islamic and Indian Worlds” category. Its price was estimated at millions of dollars.
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