Talk:Ulugh Beg Observatory

A fact from Ulugh Beg Observatory appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 8 November 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Ulugh Beg Observatory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan enabled astronomers to work out the time of a single year to within 1 minute of modern electronic calculations back in 1437?

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1737?

I have a question regarding the paragraph: "By 1737, scholarly studies using the observatory had updated the [...]" Is this correct?

It seems illogical as the article states that "However, the observatory was destroyed by religious fanatics in 1449 and was only re-discovered in 1908 [...]"

Also on the Discussion page it says that when the page was referenced in the "Did you know?" column on 8 November 2009 that the observatory "enabled astronomers to work out the time of a single year to within 1 minute of modern electronic calculations back in 1437 [...]"

So my question is whether it should say 1737 or 1437 in paragraph first mentioned?

As far as I can see from also checking with the link to Zij-i Sultani it should read 1437, but I've yet to fact check with the source given (North (1994))

--Mojowiha (talk) 17:33, 20 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I am not sure if I am doing this right...

The photo shown is most definitely NOT of the Ulug Bek Madrassa - neither in Samarkand nor in Bukhara. I have a few that I have taken of both, should anyone more savvy at wiki editing want to correct this.

I confirm, this is not the Ulugh Beg madrassa mentioned in the article. Offwalking (talk) 11:33, 4 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

108.71.213.255 (talk) 01:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong dates?

The text needs to be checked and improved by a specialist. I am concerned as some dates are apparently wrong. For instance "founded 824–1422" although it was inspired by maragha observatory, which, in turn, was founded 1259. Another issue is the style, which is not always neutral. 5.33.78.167 (talk) 14:01, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Removed the year in the Islamic calendar (which actually was 826). AstroLynx (talk) 14:13, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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