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# Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v3.c12.3197

Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit, Series A v3.c12.3197

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### [v3.c12.3197](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.pingree-1970.v3.c12.3197)

The great polymath of thirteenth-century Iran, Naṣīr al-Dīn wrote voluminously in Arabic and Persian on the exact sciences. Of interest to us here is his \*Risālat al-uṣṭurlāb\* in Persian (see C. A. Storey, \*Persian Literature\*, vol. 2, pt. 1, London 1958, pp. 52–53), of which there is a Devanāgarī transliteration under the title: \*Yantrarājaparīkṣā\* of Nāsiruddīna Muhammada Ṭūsī. Manuscript:

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