Place

Maragheh

Azerbaijan · Modern Iran

A city in northwestern Persia where Nasir al-Din al-Tusi built his great observatory and library under Mongol patronage.

Thinkers Connected to Maragheh

1201 CE – 1274 CE

Astronomer, mathematician, and ethicist who saved a library from the Mongols and built the observatory that reformed the model of the heavens.