The Astronomer of Alamut
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and the Science That Survived the MongolsBy Narin Hikma
Length9h 18m
About this audiobook
In 1256, as Mongol armies destroyed his world, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi walked out of a besieged fortress carrying his manuscripts. Within three years, he persuaded his conquerors to fund the observatory at Maragheh, gathering scholars from across the globe and inventing geometry that would later shape Copernicus's work.
The Astronomer of Alamut is a narrative biography by Narin Hikma following a mind that refused to be extinguished. Al-Tusi served the men who destroyed his world to build something that outlasted everything they burned.
• Stand on a fortress parapet and watch a scholar calculate as his world ends
• Follow the documented chain from a Persian hilltop to Copernicus and beyond
• Face the hardest question: what to do when every available choice is compromised
This is a book for anyone who has kept working while the ground moved, wondering if it counted.
Open the first page. The rest will find you.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir, Science and Nature
Length9 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
1311. What Copernicus Inherited
2Prologue
1412. The Community He Built
31. The Boy Who Read the Stars
1513. What He Believed
42. The World Before the Storm
1614. The Long Road to Baghdad
53. The Invitation That Wasn't
1715. What the Stars Remember
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64. The Mountain Fortress
1816. The Moral Complexity
75. Ethics When the World Burns
1917. What He Left and What He Carried
86. The Surrender
2018. The Questions
97. The Conqueror's Astronomer
2119. The Instruments of Heaven
108. Grief as Mathematics
2220. He Wrote 150 Books
119. Trigonometry Stands Alone
23Epilogue
1210. The Seed of Copernicus
2421. Author's Note
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