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 "id": "source/jazari-hill-1974",
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 "slug": "jazari-hill-1974",
 "label": {
  "ar": "كتاب الجزري — ترجمة دونالد هيل1974",
  "en": "Al-Jazari — Donald Hill translation1974",
  "ur": "جزری کی کتاب — ڈونلڈ ہل کا1974 ترجمہ"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "نص مترجم وتعليق حديث؛ مختارات القلعة والقارب والنافورة والشمع والقفل، ثم رافعةV.3 ص182–183 وتعليق265، لا الكتاب كله.",
  "en": "Translated primary and commentary; selected castle/boat/fountain/candle/lock reading extended toV.3 water lifter182–183/265, not the whole volume.",
  "ur": "ترجمہ اور تعلیق؛ قلعہ، کشتی، فوارے، مومی گھڑی، قفل کے منتخب حصے، پھرV.3 آب کش182–183/265، پوری جلد نہیں۔"
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "primary",
  "type": "book",
  "title": "The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "al-Jazari",
    "given": "Ismail ibn al-Razzaz"
   }
  ],
  "publisher": "D. Reidel, Dordrecht/Boston",
  "edition": "English translation and annotations by Donald R. Hill,1974; publisher's softcover reprint of hardcover first edition",
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     1974
    ]
   ]
  },
  "DOI": "10.1007/978-94-010-2573-7",
  "language": "en",
  "URL": "https://archive.org/details/TheBookOfKnowledgeOfIngeniousMechaniIbnAlRazzazAlJazari",
  "open_access": true,
  "reliability_note": "Public Archive301-page reader/full-text opened sequentially in shared browser, not API/curl. Selected translated primary17–22,24–25,39–41 and Hill explanatory general-description/layout notesI.1 read in bounded excerpts. Printed17 at37/301 and24 at44/301 visually inspected. Actual front matter confirms1974 copyright/reprint and DOI. Introduction's al-Jazari chronology gives1204 OR1206 from differing manuscripts, not a separately dated clock build.17–18 acknowledges earlier regulator designs and failed geometric divisions;24–25 practical calibration.20–22 distinguishes main float and regulating float chamber/conical valve.39–41 operator resets/manual celestial settings.19 footnote warns opening ninth-night-hour performance differs from detailed later sections;40 ninth-figure instruction/41 sixth-hour action not silently harmonized. Hill's explanatory reconstruction includes inferred dimensions/positions and discrepancies, not a flawless surviving machine. OCR fractions/Arabic-looking strings not adopted as exact evidence; no original Arabic manuscript/full-book collation claimed. Copyrighted translation not licensed for media reuse; source text/screenshots remain outside git, museum prose is its own. V.4 pages184–185 and adjacent V.3/V.5 chapters were read in the shared browser on2026-11-07 for the animal-powered scoop-lifter; no Arabic manuscript or complete book collation is claimed.",
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code"
  },
  "provenance": {
   "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
   "model": "unknown",
   "run": "inventions-p3-b40",
   "source": "Actual public Archive browser reading/17 and24 images, selected text/editorial apparatus and title/copyright metadata; not search synthesis",
   "extensions": [
    {
     "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
     "model": "unknown",
     "run": "inventions-p3-b47",
     "source": "SelectedV.3 primary182–183 and critical265 actually read;182/183/265 visually inspected after correcting initial266. Hidden water drive/cow carried clear of platform, external supply/outflow, undescribed other machine, inferred decorative use, exaggerated two-jar schematic/cantilever channel and overflow/text difference retained. Unclear OCR water fraction not adopted; first-of-two prime movers bounded to this book. Original reading note/provenance unchanged."
    },
    {
     "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
     "model": "unknown",
     "run": "inventions-p3-b46",
     "source": "SelectedVI.3 primary199–201 and critical268–269 actually read;199/201/268 visually inspected. Earlier2/4/6-letter locks, four groups of three16-symbol settings, shared closure, missing/misdrawn components, inferred support and special-case schematic retained. Protection limitation acknowledged without attack instructions; paper counting separate from measured security. Original reading note/provenance unchanged."
    },
    {
     "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
     "model": "unknown",
     "run": "inventions-p3-b45",
     "source": "SelectedI.7 primary83–86 and critical252–253 actually read;83/86/253 visually inspected. Earlier hearsay, calibration,14 finite signals/two reserved divisions, repeated movement trials and climatic limitation; wrong Oxford travel/ball positions, bayonet interpretation and inferred pedestal retained. Original reading note/provenance unchanged."
    },
    {
     "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
     "model": "unknown",
     "run": "inventions-p3-b44",
     "source": "SelectedIV preface/ch1 translated157–158 and critical263 actually read; opening at175/301 and158 at176/301 visually inspected. Wrong bearing plane/omitted bucket projections, diagrammatic reconstruction and site-dependent dimensions preserved; original reading note/provenance unchanged."
    },
    {
     "generated_by": "Copilot SDK in VS Code",
     "model": "unknown",
     "run": "inventions-p3-b43",
     "source": "SelectedII.4 translated107–109,107/109 visually inspected, chapter-specific commentary256 and live browser text verified; finite supply, non-touching harp fingers,4-vs6 peg discrepancy, missing sailor drive and falling-head timing. Original castle reading note/provenance retained."
    },
    {
     "generated_by": "github-copilot",
     "model": "unknown",
     "run": "inventions-p3-b99",
     "source": "Read V.4 pp.184–185 and adjacent V.3/V.5 in the shared Archive browser; the target text describes animal-powered gearing and a slotted ladle stem. Do not infer a physical installation or general component priority."
    },
    {
     "generated_by": "github-copilot",
     "model": "unknown",
     "run": "inventions-depth-20261107",
     "source": "Research agent detailed reading of I.4 pp.59–70, III.9 pp.149–152 and V.5 pp.186–188 for depth correction. Selected English translation only; no new Arabic collation or inspected manuscript images. V.5 was already read adjacently in batch99, not claimed as first access. Ambiguous OCR fractions not adopted."
    }
   ]
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-07",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
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