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, Ghiyāth al-Dīn
Kāshī
جمشيد بن مسعود الكاشانى
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787H/1385J
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832H/1428J
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Kāshī was an extremely accomplished mathematician, astronomer, and scientific instrument maker of the fifteenth century. He played a prominent role at the Samarqand madrasa and observatory founded by the Timurid prince Ulugh Beg. See also:http://www.jphogendijk.nl/arabsci/kashi.html . |
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802
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2827
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Authored Works
13 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.