Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī [al-Kāshānī]
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غياث الدين جمشيد بن مسعود بن محمود الكاشي
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Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd ibn Masʿūd ibn Maḥmūd al-Kāshī [al-Kāshānī]
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Kāshī
Kāshī, Ghiyāth al-Dīn
جمشيد بن مسعود الكاشانى
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787H/1385J
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Died |
832H/1428J
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Notes |
Kāshī, an extremely accomplished mathematician, astronomer, and scientific instrument maker, detailed the prominent role the mathematical sciences played at the Samarqand madrasa and observatory in personal letters written to his father in Kashan, a province in Iran near Isfahan. See also:http://www.jphogendijk.nl/arabsci/kashi.html . |
Number in MAMS |
802
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ismi_id |
2827
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Authored Works
14 works:Arithmetic: Practical/ḥisāb
Astronomical Instruments
Astronomical Tables/zījes
Astronomy: General
Astronomy: Practical
Astronomy: Theoretical/hayʾaẗ al-ʿālam
MATHEMATICS
References
Pp. 269-71 (no. 802).
On the methods for the determination of the ascendant in the fifth treatise of Kāshī's Zīj.
Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 122-124.
Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 652-660.
Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 522-525.
Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 394-404. A facsimile edition of Kāshī's Risāla dar sharḥ-i ālāt-i raṣd with translation and commentary.
Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 722-744.
Reprinted in: Kennedy's "Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences." edited by David A. King and Mary Helen Kennedy. Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983, pp. 164-184.