TEXT

ʿAmal al-bankān wa-huwa al-tughār wa-huwa al-bāss lil-sāʿāt al-mustawiyyah wa-al-muʿwajjah

Title (arabic)

عمل البنكان وهو التغار وهو الباس للساعات المستوية والمعوجّة

Title (translit)

ʿAmal al-bankān wa-huwa al-tughār wa-huwa al-bāss lil-sāʿāt al-mustawiyyah wa-al-muʿwajjah

Alias

ʿAmal al-bankān

Author

Language

Arabic

Subject

Notes

(From MAMS2): An anonymous treatise, attributed to al-Ḫwārizmī, on the construction of a water-clock or clepsydra to determine equal and unequal hours.

ismi_id

76497

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), A11.

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.

Pp. 182-85.