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ASTRONOMER

Jamshīd al-Kāshī

1380 - 1429

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Ghiyāth al-Dīn Jamshīd Masʿūd al-Kāshī (or al-Kāshānī) (Persian: غیاث الدین جمشید کاشانی Ghiyās-ud-dīn Jamshīd Kāshānī) (c. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jamshīd al-Kāshī has received more than 178,516 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Jamshīd al-Kāshī is the 27th most popular astronomer (up from 30th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Iran (up from 64th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Iranian Astronomer.

Jamshīd al-kāshī is most famous for his book on the Persian language, Kitāb al-Adab. He also wrote a book on chess, Kitāb al-Shatranj.

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  • 180k

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  • 66.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jamshīd al-Kāshī ranks 27 out of 531. Before him are Robert Woodrow Wilson, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Charles Messier, Giuseppe Piazzi, Johannes Hevelius, and Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers. After him are Roger Joseph Boscovich, Avempace, William Alfred Fowler, Johann Gottfried Galle, Fred Hoyle, and Johann Bayer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1380, Jamshīd al-Kāshī ranks 3. Before him are Thomas à Kempis and Ferdinand I of Aragon. After him are Pachacuti, Poggio Bracciolini, Bernardino of Siena, Prokop the Great, Yawar Waqaq, Mustafa Çelebi, Itzcoatl, Lidwina, and İsa Çelebi. Among people deceased in 1429, Jamshīd al-Kāshī ranks 1. After him are Giovanni di Bicci de' Medici, Cymburgis of Masovia, Jean Gerson, Alexios IV of Trebizond, Margaret of Prades, and Carlo I Tocco.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Jamshīd al-Kāshī ranks 63 out of 528. Before him are Ghazan (1271), Cyrus I (-690), Jami (1414), Shirin Ebadi (1947), Babak Khorramdin (798), and Bayazid Bastami (804). After him are Xerxes II of Persia (-500), Shapur II (309), Achaemenes (-800), Attar of Nishapur (1145), Gaykhatu (1300), and Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar (1742).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Iran

Among astronomers born in Iran, Jamshīd al-Kāshī ranks 3. Before him are Ulugh Beg (1394) and Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903). After him are Abu Hanifa Dinawari (815) and Alenush Terian (1921).

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