• Persian astronomy or Iranian astronomy refers to the astronomy in ancient Persian history. Ancient Persians celebrated the vernal equinox, summer solstice...
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    Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry...
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    Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, cosmological, calendrical...
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  • Royal stars (category Persian mythology)
    Horus Four Stags (Norse mythology) Four Symbols Four temperaments Persian astronomy Tetramorph Davis (1945). Stebbins (1943), p. 177. Olmstead (1948)...
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  • Egyptian astronomy Hebrew astronomy Indian astronomy Maya astronomy Inuit astronomy Persian astronomy Serbian folk astronomy Tibetan astronomy Nakh...
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    Alenush Terian (category CS1 Persian-language sources (fa))
    ISBN 964-6974-50-3. Alenoush Terian's Page in the Persian Wikipedia. The Mother of the Iranian Astronomy honoured Archived 2010-11-13 at the Wayback Machine...
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    Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. The numeral system used, sexagesimal, was...
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    Empire or Achaemenian Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire (/əˈkiːmənɪd/; Old Persian: 𐎧𐏁𐏂, Xšāça, lit. 'The Empire' or 'The Kingdom'), was...
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    Indian astronomy refers to astronomy practiced in the Indian subcontinent. It has a long history stretching from pre-historic to modern times. Some of...
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    The Persian Gulf (Persian: خلیج فارس, romanized: xalij-e fârs, lit. 'Gulf of Fars', pronounced [xæliːdʒe fɒːɾs]), sometimes called the Arabian Gulf (Arabic:...
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    Observational astronomy is a division of astronomy that is concerned with recording data about the observable universe, in contrast with theoretical astronomy, which...
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    Al-Biruni (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
    of his time period, the Greek, the Arab/Muslim, and the Persian. Biruni also employed astronomy in the determination of his theories, which were complex...
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    Medieval Islamic astronomy comprises the astronomical developments made in the Islamic world, particularly during the Islamic Golden Age (9th–13th centuries)...
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    Ancient Greek astronomy is the astronomy written in the Greek language during classical antiquity. Greek astronomy is understood to include the Ancient...
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  • the Talmud and very technical works. Some Persian and Arabian traditions ascribe the invention of astronomy to Adam, Seth and Enoch. Some scholars suggest...
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    Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
    advancements. In astronomy, al-Tusi created very accurate tables of planetary motion, an updated planetary model, and critiques of Ptolemaic astronomy. He also...
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  • of astronomy is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to astronomy and cosmology, their sub-disciplines, and related fields. Astronomy is...
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    Galactic astronomy is the study of the Milky Way galaxy and all its contents. This is in contrast to extragalactic astronomy, which is the study of everything...
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    Pretelescopic astronomy Babylonian astronomy Chinese astronomy Egyptian astronomy Greek astronomy Hebrew astronomy Indian astronomy Islamic astronomy Russian...
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    Babylonian astronomy was the basis for much of what was done in ancient Greek astronomy, in classical, in Sasanian, Byzantine and Syrian astronomy, astronomy in...
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    Judeo-Persian refers to both a group of Jewish dialects spoken by the Jews living in Iran and Judeo-Persian texts (written in Hebrew alphabet). As a collective...
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    səˈseɪniən/) or Sassanid Empire, sometimes referred to Second Persian Empire or Neo-Persian Empire, officially known as Eranshahr ("Kingdom of the Iranians")...
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    Ptolemy's system of seven climes was primarily adopted in Arabo-Persian astronomy, by authors such as al-Biruni and al-Idrisi, and eventually by Amīn...
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    article contains Persian text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Middle Persian or Pahlavi, also...
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    Astronomy in China has a long history stretching from the Shang dynasty, being refined over a period of more than 3,000 years. The ancient Chinese people...
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    direction. solar system portal outer space portal astronomy portal Baade's Window Galactic astronomy Galactic Center GeV excess Oort constants The distance...
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    Unsolved problem in astronomy: Why is the Sun's corona so much hotter than the Sun's surface? (more unsolved problems in astronomy) The temperature of...
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    Extragalactic astronomy is the branch of astronomy concerned with objects outside the Milky Way galaxy. In other words, it is the study of all astronomical...
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  • Old Persian is one of two directly attested Old Iranian languages (the other being Avestan) and is the ancestor of Middle Persian (the language of the...
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  • Australian Aboriginal astronomy has been passed down orally, through ceremonies, and in their artwork of many kinds. The astronomical systems passed down...
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