id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt hd76rx93b6f John Stanley Cirilli The Coherence of the Astronomers: Incomplete Knowledge and Imaginative Exploration in the Marāgha Tradition of Islamic Astronomy 2011 .txt text/plain 155 4 20 Virtuosity and rhetoric, spirituality and one-upmanship, and perhaps even artistry evident in the Marāgha astronomers' proliferation of ingenious models highlight an elective quality that bridges the 'motivation gap' between their ongoing model-making and the lack of more tangible motivations, revealing the humanity behind their enterprise. Al-Ghazālī, once thought a destroyer of Islamic science and philosophy, truly helped give shape to a distinct and distinctive style of astronomy as an exploration of God, the heavens, and the bounds of human knowledge. cache/hd76rx93b6f.txt txt/hd76rx93b6f.txt