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Morrison's research has discovered a network of Jewish scholars who traveled between the
Turkish Ottoman Empire and the Vèneto in northeastern Italy. A key figure in his research is a Jewish scholar named Moses Galeano. Galeano brought Islamic astronomy to Venice and Padua. His current book project
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Morrison's research has been the connection between the scientific culture of the Ottoman Empire and the science of the Renaissance. His work elucidates the connections between Islamic astronomy and Copernican astronomy. In a 2018 interview, he stated "what I’m doing is finding
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studied scientific theories which were produced in
Andalusia in 1400, and traveled first to the Ottoman court and then to the University of Padua, Italy. His research has also been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities and by fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center and the
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Islamic societies and the West in the 1400s and early 1500s. His project will look at how scientific knowledge and information circulated in the Mediterranean.
340:“What Was the Purpose of Astronomy in Ījī’s Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī ‘ilm al-kalām?” in Judith Pfeiffer (ed.): Tabriz after the Mongol Conquest (Brill, 2013): pp. 201–229.
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Commentaries in the Exact Sciences, vol. 20 (2019): 157–201.
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Islam and Science: The Intellectual Career of Nizam al-Din al-Nisaburi
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Nizam-al-Nisaburi: The Intellectual Career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī
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Morrison currently resides with his family in Maine, U.S.
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History of science and technology, history of astronomy
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An Economy of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean
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