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English: An extract from a 500-page plus table of timekeeping by the stars by Muhammad al-Qunawi (Muhammad ibn al-Katib Sinan). Columns represent each degree of right ascensions of culminating stars, from 134° to 141° in this excerpt. Rows represent each degree of solar longitude, within Aquarius in this excerpt. Each cell represents the time as a function of the row and column. See en:Muhammad al-Qunawi#On timekeeping by the stars or King 1977, pp. 248, 260 for more details
Date 16th century
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
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Author Original work by Muhammad al-Qunawi (died 1524)

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