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Ulugh Beg Observatory
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical observatory
- Named after
- Ulugh Beg
- Country
- Uzbekistan
- Located in
- Samarkand
- Area
- 274
- Founded by
- Ulugh Beg
- Image
- Обсерватория Улугбека, Самарканд (Ulugh Beg Observatory, Samarkand).jpg
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- inception
- 1420-00-00
- described at URL
- www.placemania.sk/svetova-zaujimavost/ulugh-beg-observatorium
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1449-00-00
- Commons category
- Ulugh Beg Observatory
- time of discovery or invention
- 1908-00-00
- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- directions
- Islom Karimov koʻchasi, 1-uy
- native label
- Ulug‘bek rasadxonasi
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Encyclopedic overview
Ulugh Beg Observatory in 2025 A model of Ulugh Beg Observatory in the Uzbek National Museum; the central partition hosted the huge sextant. The trench with the lower section of the meridian arc. In Ulugh Beg's time, these walls were lined with polished marble. It was part of huge sextant. The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in modern day Samarkand, Uzbekistan, which was built in the 1420s by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg. This school of astronomy was constructed under the Timurid Empire, and was the last of its kind from the Islamic Medieval period. Islamic astronomers who worked at the observatory include Jamshid al-Kashi, Ali Qushji, and Ulugh Beg himself. The observatory was destroyed in 1449 and rediscovered in 1908.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ulugh Beg Observatory” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.