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Printed1859 diagram of the conical instrument attributed to al-Biruni

رسم مطبوع1859 للآلة المخروطة المنسوبة للبيروني

Khanikoff printed54, not a surviving instrument photograph or al-Biruni autograph 1.

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Printed page54 with conical vessel, neck, handle and side outlet towards a pan, with Arabic/English legend; nineteenth-century reproduction of a transmitted drawing.
Khanikoff, Analysis and Extracts of Book of the Balance of Wisdom, JAOS volume6,1859/60, printed54. Wikimedia Commons File:Khazini,_Book_of_the_Balance_of_Wisdom_(Eng).pdf: explicit US public-domain/expired-copyright statement, published before1931. Original scanned page unaltered, display-scaled only. Nineteenth-century reproduction of a transmitted diagram, not an autograph, surviving physical instrument, five-pan Balance of Wisdom or modern reconstruction. Manuscript losses/copy errors acknowledged by editor54. · Licence: PD · Open full image

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  1. Analysis and extracts of the Book of the Balance of Wisdom — Khanikoff , p.54
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