ʿAṬĀʾ SAMARQANDĪ

 

ʿAṬĀʾ B. AḤMAD B. MOḤAMMAD B. ḴᵛĀJA ḠĀZĪ SAMARQANDĪ, ABU MOḤAMMAD, author of a set of astronomical tables for an unidentified prince of the Yuan dynasty of China, Chen-Hsi-Wu-Ching, in 764/1362-63. The autograph manuscript, now in Paris, has marginal notes in Chinese.

 

Bibliography:

Brockelmann, GAL, S. II, p. 297.

J. Needham and Wang Ling, Science and Civilization in China I, Cambridge, 1954, p. 218.

Search terms:

 عطاء سمرقندی ata samarghandi ataa samarghandi ata samarghandy

 

(D. Pingree)

Originally Published: December 15, 1987

Last Updated: August 17, 2011

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