Ulugh Beg, Prince of Stars
Abstract
Who was Ulugh Beg? A prince who governed a province in the central Asian empire built by his grandfather Tamerlane. Above all, he was a scholar who founded the Samarkand astronomical observatory, whose work predated that of the best astronomers in Europe one and a half centuries later.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- April 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1804.08352
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1804.08352
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv180408352L
- Keywords:
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- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics;
- Physics - Popular Physics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 8 figures