Book of Ingenious Devices

Name: Book of Ingenious Devices
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ISBN: 9789027708335

ISBN-10: 9027708339

ISBN-13: 9789027708335

Edition: 1979

Authors: Banu Musa Bin Shakir Staff, Donald R. Hill

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skilled in geometry, ingenious devices (!lival), music and astronomy. According to Ibn al-Nad!m and Ibn Khallikän their weakest subject was astronamy, but this seems to conflict with the opinions of Ibn Yunus and al-BIrun!, hoth good judges, who spoke highly of the accuracy of the Banu Musa's astronomical observations. Mul)ammad, who was the most influential of the brothers, specialised in gcomctry and astronomy, and excellcd Al)mad in all the sciences except in the construction of ingenious devices. AI-l:Iasan was a brilliant geometrician with aretenlive memoryand great powers of deduction. A rival onee tried to discredit him in front of al-Ma'mun hy saying that al l:Iasan had read only…

Book details

List price: $449.99
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication date: 12/31/1978
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 267
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long
Weight: 1.298
Language: English