Astronomical Work at Samarkand Observatory

Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī

  Astronomical Works

• Kennedy, Edward S., “Al-Kāshī’s “Plate of Conjunctions””, Isis: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Civilization, 38 (1947), 56-59 [JSTOR link].
• Kennedy, Edward S., “A Fifteenth-Century Planetary Computer: al-Kāshī’s “Ṭabaq al-Manāṭeq”: I. Motion of the Sun and Moon in Longitude”, Isis: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Civilization, 41 (1950), 180-183 [JSTOR link].
• Kennedy, Edward S., “An Islamic Computer for Planetary Latitudes”, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 71 (1951), 13-21 [JSTOR link].
• Kennedy, Edward S., “A Fifteenth-Century Planetary Computer: al-Kāshī’s “Ṭabaq al-Manāṭeq”: II. Longitudes, Distances, and Equations of the Planets”, Isis: An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Civilization, 43 (1952), 42-50 [JSTOR link].
• Kennedy, Edward S., “Al-Kāshī’s Treatise on Astronomical Observational Instruments”, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 20 (1961), 98-108 [JSTOR link] – reprinted in D.A. King & M.H. Kennedy (eds.), Studies in the Islamic Exact Sciences (Beirut: American University of Beirut, 1983), pp. 394-404 [check].
• Van Brummelen, Glen, “Taking Latitude with Ptolemy: Jamshīd al-Kāshī’s Novel Geometric Model of the Motions of the Inferior Planets”, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 60 (2006), 353-377 [JSTOR link].

  Mathematical Works

• Luckey, Paul, Die Rechenkunst bei Ǧamšīd b. Masʿūd al-Kāšī mit Rückblicken auf die ältere Geschichte des Rechnens (Wiesbaden: Kommissionsverlag Franz Steiner GMBH, 1951 [= Abhandlungen für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, nr. XXXI.1]).