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18 hours ago · Ulugh Beg invited a large number of astronomers and mathematicians of the Islamic world to this madrasah. Under Ulugh Beg, Samarkand became one of the world centers of medieval science. In the first half of the 15th century, a whole scientific school arose around Ulugh Beg, uniting prominent astronomers and mathematicians including Jamshid al-Kashi , Qāḍī Zāda al-Rūmī , and Ali Qushji .
18 hours ago · Betelgeuse and its red coloration have been noted since antiquity; the classical astronomer Ptolemy described its color as ὑπόκιρρος (hypókirrhos = more or less orange-tawny), a term later described by a translator of Ulugh Beg's Zij-i Sultani as rubedo, Latin for "ruddiness".
18 hours ago · Ulugh Beg, however, regarded Al-Dafira as consisting of two stars, 7 and 23 Comae Berenices. [22] The North American Pawnee people depicted Coma Berenices as ten faint stars on a tanned elk-skin star map dated to at least the 17th century. [23] In the South American Kalina mythology, the constellation was known as ombatapo (face). [24]
18 hours ago · 807,000 sq ft (75,000 m 2) in 94 galleries. The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world. [ 3 ] It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.
18 hours ago · Lahore. Lahore (/ ləˈhɔːr / lə-HOR; Punjabi: لہور [lɔː˩˥ɾ]; Urdu: لاہور [laːˈɦɔːɾ] ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Punjab. It is the second largest city in Pakistan, after Karachi, and 26th largest in the world, with a population of over 13 million. [10] Located in north-eastern Punjab ...
18 hours ago · Schāh Ruchs Sohn Ulugh Beg, der ab 1409 von Samarkand aus über Transoxanien herrschte, setzte dort ebenfalls einen Muhtasib ein, hatte jedoch mehrfach Konfrontationen mit ihm, weil sowohl er als auch sein Schaich al-Islām öfters Feiern veranstalteten, bei denen Wein getrunken wurde und Frauen anwesend waren.
18 hours ago · Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers. They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had populated most of the Earth by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.
