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17 de may. de 2024 · We explore the Ulugh Beg Madrasa, a remarkable historical site in Samarkand. Discover the rich legacy of Ulugh Beg, the Timurid ruler and astronomer who founded this center of learning....
Hace 5 días · In 1417–1420, Timur's grandson Ulugh Beg built a madrasah in Samarqand, which became the first building in the architectural ensemble of Registan. Ulugh Beg invited a large number of astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world to this madrasah.
Hace 4 días · One of Ulugh Beg’s greatest achievements was a thorough star catalogue containing over 1,000 stars and their exact locations in the sky. This catalogue was created 200 years before telescopes came into existence! But Ulugh Beg was better at being a scientist and astronomer than a ruler.
1 de may. de 2024 · On this Ala al-Dawla Mirza marched from Herat with his army and besieged Balkh in the winter of 1447 C.E. Abdal-Latif Mirza sent a letter to his father Ulugh Beg for reinforcements. In response Ulugh Beg sent an envoy to Ala al-Dawla Mirza to admonish him and to let him know to address his grievances to Samarkand in the future rather ...
Hace 4 días · After the death of Ulugh Beg, the observatory was abandoned, and at the beginning of the 16th century, it was destroyed. You can learn more about the topic in the book-album “Uzbekistan in historic photographs of the 19th - early 20th centuries in the collections of Russian archives” (Volume XXXVII) in the series “Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan”.
14 de may. de 2024 · Ulugh Beg, میرزا محمد طارق بن شاه رخ الغ بیگ, (* 22. März 1394 in Soltanije, Iran; † 27. Oktober 1449 in Samarkand, ermordet; Alternativ: Uluğ Bey, Ulugh Bek, Uluġ Beg) war ein Timuriden-Fürst in Samarkand. Er ist bekannt als Astronom und als Märtyrer der Wissenschaft.
Hace 2 días · In 1437, Ulugh Beg even determined the length of the sidereal year to be 365.2570370 days, which was off by a mere 58 seconds. In fact, that era of discovery and science had started centuries earlier. Al-Khwarizmi, who lived between 780 and 850, developed the foundations of algebra, quadratic equations and algorithms.
