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This is a miscellany consisting of four main texts, as well as a number of additional, short extracts. The contents are as follows: (1) f 1r-34r [Kelimat-i ma‘arifiye] Risale-i Hüdayi Mahmud Efendi el-Üsküday (sic) A record compiled by the Sufi sheikh Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi (died 1038 AH/1628 CE),...
Volume containing three technological treatises: Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt (كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات, ff. 2v-14r); Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (أبلنيوس النجار الهندسي), San‘at al-zāmir (صنعة الزامر, ff. 14r-21r); Farghānī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (فرغاني، أحمد بن محمد), a...
Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-binkamāt كتاب أرشميدس في عمل البنكامات Archimedes أرشميدس
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Treatise on the hydraulic and pneumatic machinery of water-clocks with eighteen diagrams, attributed to Archimedes (Ἀρχιμήδης; أرشميدس; fl. 3rd century BC). The title page gives the title wrongly as كتاب أرشميدس في عمل الساعات (Kitāb Arshimīdas fī ‘amal al-sā‘āt). This early known copy of the te...