A Book on al-Khazini's Book on the Balance of Wisdom

This is the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science's own research project page describing its long running scholarly project on al-Khazini's eleventh century treatise on the Balance of Wisdom, a sophisticated medieval Islamic weighing instrument, and on the wider history of balances in medieval Islamic science. As a leading history of science research institute publishing its own project description, it is an authoritative source for the current state of scholarly work on al-Khazini and for the treatise's recognized significance within Islamic science. Its limit is that a project overview page summarizes ongoing research rather than presenting the full translation and study itself, so a detailed technical claim about the treatise's content is better checked against the project's actual published translation once complete, or against the treatise itself, rather than this summary page alone.