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KronoScope: An Invitation "And take upon's the mystery of things"

KronoScope: An Invitation "And take upon's the mystery of things" J.T. Fraser KronoScope: An Invitation “And take upon’s the mystery of things” Ten centuries ago it was possible for a person to become familiar with the main trends and concerns of the arts, the letters, and the sciences of his day. For a gifted person, it was even possible to contribute significantly to all of them. This was certainly the case for Omar, who was born in 1044 and died in 1131 in Nishapur, Persia. His epithet, Khayyam - the tentmaker - most likely suggests his father ’s trade. He was a mathematician who discovered a geomet- ric method for solving cubic equations, worked with irrational numbers, and published a treatise on the parallel postulate of Euclid. He was an astronomer who compiled astronomical tables and a member of a group, appointed around 1077 by Sultan Jelaledin Malik-Shah of Khorasan, to reform the then current calendar, promulgated three centuries earlier. That new calendar, known as the Jelali Calendar, required a correction every 3,770 years; the Gregorian calen- dar, promulgated five centuries after Omar, needed correction every 3,330 years. KronoScope 1:1-2 (2001) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2001 He was also a philosopher of pantheistic persuasion, a man of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Kronoscope Brill

KronoScope: An Invitation "And take upon's the mystery of things"

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Kronoscope , Volume 1 (1): 7 – Jan 1, 2001
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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1567-715x
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10.1163/156852401760060892
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J.T. Fraser KronoScope: An Invitation “And take upon’s the mystery of things” Ten centuries ago it was possible for a person to become familiar with the main trends and concerns of the arts, the letters, and the sciences of his day. For a gifted person, it was even possible to contribute significantly to all of them. This was certainly the case for Omar, who was born in 1044 and died in 1131 in Nishapur, Persia. His epithet, Khayyam - the tentmaker - most likely suggests his father ’s trade. He was a mathematician who discovered a geomet- ric method for solving cubic equations, worked with irrational numbers, and published a treatise on the parallel postulate of Euclid. He was an astronomer who compiled astronomical tables and a member of a group, appointed around 1077 by Sultan Jelaledin Malik-Shah of Khorasan, to reform the then current calendar, promulgated three centuries earlier. That new calendar, known as the Jelali Calendar, required a correction every 3,770 years; the Gregorian calen- dar, promulgated five centuries after Omar, needed correction every 3,330 years. KronoScope 1:1-2 (2001) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2001 He was also a philosopher of pantheistic persuasion, a man of

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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