Pseudo-Archimedes

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Pseudo-Archimedes is a name given to

Al-Jazari for the construction of water clocks.[1] Archimedes
himself is not known to have written any such manuscript as almost all the manuscripts have been lost.

The only surviving manuscript from a Pseudo-Archimedes, the

Donald Routledge Hill is of the opinion that the original manuscript may have been Greek but that most of the manuscript was written by later Arabic authors. The scholar A.G. Drachmann believes that the manuscript was assembled from Arabic translations of various Greek sources, including works by Hero of Alexandria, Ctesibius, and Philon.[2] The manuscript is referred to by the Arabic engineers Ridwan and Al-Jazari.[3]

References

  1. ^ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
  2. ISBN 9789401025737
    .
  3. Ahmad Y Hassan. "Al-Jazari and the History of the Water Clock". Archived from the original
    on 22 December 2006.
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