Al-Kashi's Geographical Tables: Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 77, Part 7)

by E.S. Kennedy

Jamshid Ghyath al-Din al-Kashi (fl. 1420), a native of central Iran, worked at the Samarqand observatory of Sultan Ulugh Beg, grandson of Tamerlane. Kashi is best known as a virtuoso of computational mathematics, but he was also a competent astronomer. Among his major works is the "Zij-i Khaqani," an astronomical handbook written in Persian. The zij contains a list giving the latitudes & longitudes of some 515 places, mostly cities, the subject of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871697785
• ISBN13: 9780871697783
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 45 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.