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.
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Pingree, David. "ʿAṬĀʾ SAMARQANDĪ." Encyclopaedia Iranica. Published December 15, 1987. https://doi.org/10.1163/2330-4804_EIRO_COM_6038