Which outcome changed navigational estimates because of the adoption of epicycles in Islamic astronomical models?

💡 Explanation

Adoption of epicycles in astronomy refined the Geocentric model leading to improvements in the Geometric trigonometry calculations of the the qibla; therefore, the qibla achieved higher precision using epicycles, rather than stellar parallax because early instruments lacked the sensitivity.

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