Yvonne Dold-Samplonius
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LOCATION: I.N.F. 288, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Historian of Mathematics, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Editor of Archimedes Opera Omnia, Vol. IV.
Primary Contributions (1)
Al-Kāshī was among the greatest mathematicians and astronomers in the Islamic world. The first event known with certainty in al-Kāshī’s life is his observation of a lunar eclipse on June 2, 1406, from Kāshān. His earliest surviving work is Sullam al-samāʾ (1407; “The Stairway of Heaven”), an…
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