TEXT

ʿAmal al-maknasah

Title (arabic)

عمل المكنسة

Title (translit)

ʿAmal al-maknasah

Alias

ʿAmal al-maknasah
ʿAmal al-mukannasaẗ

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

(From MAMS2): An anonymous treatise (attributed to Ḫwārizmī) on the construction of the maknasa, a composite sundial.

ismi_id

101825

Literature References

Charette, François. 2003. Mathematical Instrumentation In Fourteenth-Century Egypt And Syria: The Illustrated Treatise Of Najm Al-Dīn Al-Mīṣrī. Leiden; Boston: E. J. Brill.

Pp. 205-8.

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), A15.