A short-lived sixteenth-century Ottoman observatory built in Istanbul under the astronomer Taqi al-Din, equipped with novel mechanical and observational instruments comparable in sophistication to those of his European contemporary Tycho Brahe. It was demolished by order of the Sultan only a few years after completion, amid religious and political controversy over astrology.
Facts
LocationConstantinople (today Istanbul), on a hill overlooking the European section of the city 1 MeasuresPosition and speed of the planets 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Wikipedia: Constantinople Observatory of Taqi ad-Din
Lead section
two large structures perched on a hill overlooking the European section of Constantinople
Instruments
a giant armillary sphere and an accurate mechanical astronomical clock for measuring the position and speed of the planets
In Group: Historic Pre-Telescopic Observatories, Lead sentence
The Constantinople observatory of Taqi ad-Din, founded in Constantinople (today Istanbul) by Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf in 1577, was one of the largest astronomical observatories in the pre-modern world.
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