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Al-Kāshī's Geographical Table

By Jamshīd Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī , Edward S. Kennedy , Mary H. Kennedy

Book information

Publisher
The American Philosophical Society
Year
1987
ISBN
0871697785, 9780871697783
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3128384 bytes)
Series
Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 77, 7
Pages
50\52
Topic
Geography
Time added
2022-05-21 17:35:46

Description

Jamshīd Ghiyāth al-Dīn al-Kāshī (fl.1420), a native of central Iran, worked at the Samarqand observatory of Sultan Ulugh Beg, grandson of Tamerlane. Kāshī is best known as a virtuoso of computational athematics, but he was also a competent astronomer. Among his major works is the 'Zīj-i Khāqānī', an astronomical handbook written in Persian. The 'zīj' contains a list giving the latitudes and longitudes of some 515 places, mostly cities, the subject of this paper. Introduction 1 The Table 3 Analysis of the Table 36 Bibliography 40 Plates 41

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