Mirim Çelebi was a 16th-century Ottoman

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. ''Çelebi'' was a title meaning "intellectual".

Biography

Mirim Çelebi was born in

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. His father Kutbiddin Muhammed was the grandson of the famous Ottoman astronomer Ali Kuşçu (1403–1474). After the death of his father, he was trained by his maternal grandfather. He served in the

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s of

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and finally Constantinople as a scholar (). Sultan Bayazıt II (reigned 1481–1512) invited him to the palace as a mathematics teacher. He was also an expert of

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. During the reign of

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(r. 1512–1520), he briefly served as

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, a high-ranked judge. In 1519, he retired and spent the rest of his life in Edirne. Mirim Çelebi died in Edirne, and was laid to rest in the graveyard of Evliya Kasim Pasha Mosque. His main book was on optics.Ahmet Efe-Ubeydullah Efe: ''Osmanlı Ufkundan Portreler'' , pp. 36–37

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