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Ulugh Beg's Lost Observatory and the Timurid Sky
In Episode 267, we turn our gaze from the earth to the heavens with Ulugh Beg, the Timurid prince who became one of history’s most dedicated astronomers. While his grandfather Amir Temur conquered lands, Ulugh Beg sought to map the stars, building the Gurkhani Zerijkhana in Samarkand during the early 1400s. This episode explores how a ruler with an imperial throne traded the sword for the sextant, creating the largest mural quadrant ever constructed at that time. We discuss the precision of his Zij-i Sultani star catalog, which corrected centuries of Ptolemaic errors, and the cultural…
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