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Tamerlane's Captive Chinese Calendar: The Samarkand Timekeepers
In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna explore how Tamerlane's conquests brought Chinese astronomers to Samarkand, where they helped reform the calendar under the Timurid dynasty. After the sack of the Ming border city of Hami in 1398, captured Chinese calendar officials were among those relocated to the workshop city. Lucas explains how the 'Great Ming Calendar' (Da Tong Li) was studied alongside Islamic astronomical traditions in Samarkand's observatory, built later by his grandson Ulugh Beg. The conversation covers the role of captured astronomers like Zhang…
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