Al-Khazini: Inventor of an Ingeniously Accurate Weighing Scale!

Al-Khazini was a twelfth-century mathematician, astronomer and inventor from Merv in present-day Turkmenistan. Al-Khazini wrote his Book of the Balance of Wisdom, an encyclopedia on scales and water-balances in which he describes an amazing invention of his: the hydrostatic balance. This water-based weighing scale became famous and proved unmatched in its accuracy for centuries. This nameable is not be missed!