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TEXT

ʿAmal al-bankān alladhī yusammá al-bunduqiyyah

Title (arabic)

عمل البنكان اللذي یسمی البندقية
Title (translit)

ʿAmal al-bankān alladhī yusammá al-bunduqiyyah
Alias

ʿAmal al-bankān
Author

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Mūsá al-Khwārizmī al-Majūsī
Language

Arabic
Subject

Astronomical Instruments
Notes

An anonymous treatise (attributed to Ḫwārizmī), on a water-clock that uses pebbles.
ismi_id

53872

Manuscript Witnesses

1 witnesses:
ʿAmal al-bankān alladhī yusammá al-bunduqiyyah_Istanbul_Süleymaniye Manuscript Library_Ayasofya_4830

Literature References

Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 25 (no. 41), A12.

Ahmedov, A.A. 1991. “Traktaty Al-Khorezmi Ob Opredelenii Azimutov I Vremeni (Treatises of Al-Ḫwārizmī on the Definition of Azimuth and Time)”. In Materialy Po Istorii I Po Istorii Nauki I kul’tury Narodov Sredney Azii, 155-200. Tashkent.

P. 185.