10th Century Astronomical Text of Abd-al Rahman al-Sufi Unveiled [Ancient Origins, September 2021]

Title:

10th Century Astronomical Text of Abd-al Rahman al-Sufi Unveiled 

 

Published:

Ancient Origins, 17 September 2021

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/abd-al-rahman-al-sufi-0015830

 

From the article:

The “suwar al-kawakib" or the Book of Fixed Stars is a 10th century astronomical Arabic text, authored by the famed scholar Abd-al Rahman al-Sufi in the year 964 AD. It was produced by the powerful Greco-Arabic translation movement, which emanated in Baghdad and sought to translate secular Greek classical texts and the works of Hellenistic scholars into Arabic. 

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Project: Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan 

(2021)

St Petersburg State University (Phys.org, 5 June 2020) - Palaeontologists create most detailed virtual 3-D-model of endocranial cast and blood vessels of head of ankylosaurian

Title:
Palaeontologists create most detailed virtual 3-D-model of endocranial cast and blood vessels of head of ankylosaurian

By:
St Petersburg State University

Published:
Phys.org, 5 June 2020
https://phys.org/news/2020-06-palaeontologists-virtual-d-model-endocranial-blood.html

From the article:
Palaeontologists from St Petersburg University have been the first to study in detail the structure of the brain and blood vessels in the skull of the ankylosaur Bissektipelta archibaldi, an herbivorous dinosaur somewhat similar in appearance to a modern armadillo. Scientists produced the first three-dimensional computer reconstruction of a dinosaur endocast made in Russia,a digital cast of its braincase. It made it possible to determine that ankylosaurs, and Bissektipelta in particular, were capable of cooling their brains, had an extremely developed sense of smell, and heard low-frequency sounds. However, their brains were one and a half times smaller than that of modern animals of the same size.