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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| عطاء سمرقندی | ata samarghandi | ataa samarghandi | ata samarghandy |
(D. Pingree)
Originally Published: December 15, 1987
Last Updated: August 17, 2011
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