Ulugh Beg, Prince of Stars
History and Philosophy of Physics
2018-04-25 v1 Popular Physics
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1804.08352,
title = {Ulugh Beg, Prince of Stars},
author = {J. -P. Luminet},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.08352},
year = {2018}
}
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9 pages, 8 figures