One of the earliest surviving expositions of al-Kāshī’s iterative sine computation discoveries is an Arabic treatise of uncertain authorship, composed at the Samarqand observatory of the Timurid astronomer-prince Mīrzā Ulugh Beg. The various identifications of this text in its known manuscripts include the following descriptions (Rosenfeld and Hogendijk 2003, p. 32).

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Al-Bīrjandī and His Predecessors on Approximating the Sine of 1°

  • Clemency Montelle,
  • Kim Plofker,
  • Glen Van Brummelen

摘要

One of the earliest surviving expositions of al-Kāshī’s iterative sine computation discoveries is an Arabic treatise of uncertain authorship, composed at the Samarqand observatory of the Timurid astronomer-prince Mīrzā Ulugh Beg. The various identifications of this text in its known manuscripts include the following descriptions (Rosenfeld and Hogendijk 2003, p. 32).