Tables sultaniennes

The Tables sultaniennes ( zij-e soltâni in Persan) or Tables of the imperial son-in-law ( zij-e gurgâni , cf Turco-Mongolian güregen : son-in-law of a Mongolian khan ), is astronomical tables carried out with the Médersa then with the observatory of Samarkand by the prince Astronome Oulough Beg and some 70 other scientists.

Among the colleagues of the prince appeared the Mathématicien S and Astronome S Ali Quchtchi, his pupil, Qadi-zadeh Roumi, its professor, and Al-Kachi, of which clean the Khaqani zij (" tables of large the khan ") were integrated into the Tables sultaniennes.

The Tables sultaniennes appeared in 1437 but were improved by Oulough Beg until little before its death in 1449. The prince and his colleagues calculated the positions of more than 1000 star S and a certain number of them, not described until there, keeps the name that it gave them.

In 1449, Oulough Beg was assassinated by his/her son Abd ul-Lative case and Ali Quchtchi left with a copy the Tables sultaniennes, initially with Tabriz at the Aq Qoyunlu (" those of the sheep blancs" , in Turkmène), then with Istanbul at the Othoman ; it is from there that they reached Europe.

The first Western translation, an anonymous version in Hebrew, was carried out towards 1500 with Venice.

Sources

1839. L. EP A. Sedillot (1808-1875). Astronomical tables of Oloug Beg, commentees and publiees with the text in glance, TomeI, 1 booklet, Paris. With very rare work, goal referenced in the general Bibliography of astronomy until 1880, by J.
1847. L. EP A. Sedillot (1808-1875). Prolegomenes of Tablesastronomiques d' Oloug Beg, publiees with Notes and Alternatives, and precede by an Introduction. Paris: F. Didot.
1853. L. EP A. Sedillot (1808-1875). Prolegomenes of Tablesastronomiques d' Oloug Beg, translation and comment. Paris.

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