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Ulugh-Beg or Ulug-Beg , 1394-1449, Timurid ruler and astronomer. The grandson of Timur (or Tamerlane), he succeeded to the Timurid domain in 1447. A patron of the arts and sciences, he established an astronomical observatory at Samarkand and compiled a star catalog (1420-37). His work, written in Arabic, was translated into Persian. It became known in Europe in the 16th cent. and a Latin version appeared in England (1665). A small museum of astronomy now stands on the remains of his observatory.

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Ulugh Beg Title assumed by Muhammad Taragi (1394–1449), Mongol ruler and astronomer, born in modern Iran. In 1420 he established an observatory at Samarkand, in modern Uzbekistan. He equipped it with a huge (radius 40 m) sextant of stone which allowed observations accurate to a few seconds of arc to be made. The result was the first original star catalogue since those of Ptolemy and al-Ṣūfī, which it surpassed in precision.

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