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TIL that ulugh beg, the sultan of the timurid empire and grandson of the turco-Mongol conqueror Timur, was an astronomer and mathematician who composed zij-i-sultani of 994 stars, generally considered one of the greatest star catalogues between Ptolemy and Tycho Brahe.

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