Author
Hill
Publication Date
28 Shawwāl 691 (CE, Gregorian)
Type
Book
Language
Arabic
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
Yes
Pages Count
1
Library
Qatar Digital Library
Library Asset ID
Or 14270, ff 14r-21r
Record ID
vdc_100023698323.0x000003
Library Location
British Library: Oriental Manuscripts
Date
28 Shawwāl 691 (CE, Gregorian)
Notes
Treatise on the design and construction of an hydraulic flute playing machine. The treatise is attributed to 'Apollonius the carpenter and geometer (Apollonius the geometric carpenter)', who some have identified as the geometer Apollonius of Perga (Ἀπολλώνιος; Apollonius; fl ca 200 BC).
The text in this copy differs from that in Add MS 23391, ff 21r-25v and edited by Hill, Shehadeh and Lorch (1994-95).
Beginnings (f. 14r, lines 5-8):
... the workmanship of the piper Laclus
The engineering carpenter takes a box
Well-groomed, plastered or leaded
Its entire interior is four cubits long
Ends (f. 20v, line 16-20v, line 18):
Something drips from it that is attributed (!) to the pearl and the hot stone (!) and its destruction and the light
Enter (!) on the gun with lead and expand the dose if you want with a strip
The soft Tzadah, and do not place the highest Naar in his seat, lest he be far away, and this is his image
The treatise contains seven diagrams:
Internal mechanisms within a water-clock (f. 15r);
Internal mechanisms for a pipe-organ within a water-clock (f. 16r);
Internal mechanisms within a water-clock (f. 16v);
Disc indicating the signs of the zodiac and the corresponding Syro-Macedonian months (f. 17r);
Base (?) of a water-clock (f. 18v);
Base (?) of a water-clock (f. 20r);
Base (?) of a water-clock (f. 21r).
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Seçilmiş kaynakça
Edition, translation and study:
Donald R. Hill, Kamal Shehadeh and Richard P. Lorch, 'Construction of a Fluting Machine by Apollonius the Carpenter', Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Arabisch-Islamischen Wissenschaften, 9 (1994-95), 326-56
