The Ulugh Beg Observatory, birthplace of Central Asian astronomy

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Ulugh Beg, who ruled what is now Uzbekistan in the 15th Century, is today recognized by many scholars as the most important observational astronomer of his age. The observatory he built was the largest in Central Asia, and the scene of breakthroughs in the science in the middle ages.

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