The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices: (Kitāb fī ma ’rifat al-ḥiyal al-handasiyya)

Front Matter....Pages I-XXV
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The castle water-clock....Pages 17-41
The water-clock of the drummers....Pages 42-50
The water-clock of the boat....Pages 51-57
The elephant water-clock....Pages 58-70
The beaker water-clock....Pages 71-74
The water clock of the peacocks....Pages 75-82
The candle-clock of the swordsman....Pages 83-86
The candle-clock of the scribe....Pages 87-89
The monkey candle-clock....Pages 90-91
The candle-clock of the doors....Pages 92-93
A goblet which arbitrates at drinking parties....Pages 95-97
A goblet which arbitrates at drinking parties....Pages 98-98
An arbiter for drinking parties (the castle wine dispenser)....Pages 99-106
A boat which is placed on a pool during a drinking party....Pages 107-109
A pitcher for dispensing different liquids....Pages 110-114
The figure of a boon-companion who drinks the king’s leavings....Pages 115-117
A standing slave holding a fish and a goblet....Pages 118-119
A man holding a goblet and a bottle....Pages 120-121
A dais upon which are two sh ay kh s , each holding a goblet and a bottle....Pages 122-124
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
A slave-girl who emerges from a cupboard at intervals, holding a glass which contains wine....Pages 125-126
A pitcher from which hot water, cold water and mixed water is poured....Pages 127-129
A pitcher which dispenses water for the king to perform his ritual ablutions....Pages 130-132
A slave who pours water over the king’s hands....Pages 133-135
A peacock which discharges water from its beak....Pages 136-136
The basin of the monk, from which can be told the quantity of blood which falls into it....Pages 137-139
The basin of the two scribes for blood-letting....Pages 140-142
The basin of the reckoner for blood-letting....Pages 143-145
The basin of the castle from which the amount of blood collected therein can be ascertained....Pages 146-148
The basin of the peacock for washing the hands....Pages 149-152
The basin of the slave....Pages 153-155
Fountain of the two tipping-buckets....Pages 157-158
Two fountains and two tipping-buckets, with four outlets....Pages 159-159
Fountains of the two floats....Pages 160-161
Two fountains of the two floats....Pages 162-163
The fountain of the bowl....Pages 164-165
Fountain of the two tipping-buckets (with valves)....Pages 166-169
Instrument for perpetual flute, with two spheres....Pages 170-171
Instrument for perpetual flute, with two tipping-buckets....Pages 172-173
Instrument for perpetual flute, with a balance....Pages 174-175
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Instrument for perpetual flute with two floats....Pages 176-177
A machine for raising water from a pool to a higher place by an animal who turns a lever-arm....Pages 179-179
A machine for raising water from a pool or a well by an animal who rotates it....Pages 180-181
A machine for raising water by means of an endless chain of pots....Pages 182-183
A machine for raising water from a pool (by means of a flumed swape operated by a crank driven, through gears, by an animal)....Pages 184-185
Pump driven by a water-wheel....Pages 186-189
A door of cast brass for the king’s place at Āmid....Pages 191-195
A protractor....Pages 196-198
A lock for locking a chest by means of 12 letters of the alphabet....Pages 199-201
Four bolts on the back of a door....Pages 202-203
A boat clock....Pages 204-238
Back Matter....Pages 239-285