"Thanks and praise and incomparable glory is due of the Power, who has inlaid the layers of the heavens with glistening pearls, with shooting stars, and glittering jewels, the planets and the fixed stars. The Sage who, impelled by His complete wisdom, wrought the bringing into existence of the inferior together with the situations of the superior; the Almighty, who by the hand of power and destiny moulded how many shining bodies."
- Jamshīd al-Kāshī, born 1380 in Kashan, Timurid Empire (on the land of present day Iran)