Pseudo-Archimedes

Pseudo-Archimedes is a name given to pseudo-anonymous authors writing under the name of 'Archimedes' as quoted by various sources of the Islamic Golden Age such as Al-Jazari for the construction of water clocks.^[1] Archimedes himself is not known to have written any such manuscript.

The only surviving manuscript from a Pseudo-Archimedes is an Arabic treatise not listed among Archimedes' works. 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 manuscript is referred to by the Arabic engineers Ridwan and Al-Jazari.^[2]

References

↑ Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
↑ Ahmad Y Hassan, Al-Jazari and the History of the Water Clock

Archimedes

Written works	On the Equilibrium of Planes Measurement of a Circle On Spirals On the Sphere and Cylinder On Floating Bodies The Quadrature of the Parabola Ostomachion The Sand Reckoner The Method of Mechanical Theorems Book of Lemmas (apocryphal)

Finds and inventions	Archimedean solid Archimedes' cattle problem Archimedes' principle Archimedes' screw Claw of Archimedes

Miscellaneous	Archimedes Palimpsest List of things named after Archimedes Pseudo-Archimedes

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