Pseudo-Archimedes is a name given to an unknown source quoted by various sources of the Islamic Golden Age

Islamic Golden Age

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 such as Al-Jazari

Al-Jazari

Abū al-'Iz Ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī was a Muslim polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, who lived during the Islamic Golden Age...

 as a reference for the construction of water clock

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s. Archimedes

Archimedes

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 himself is not known to have written any such manuscript.

The only surviving manuscript from a Pseudo-Archimedes is an Arabic

Arabic language

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 treatise not listed among Archimedes' works. Donald Routledge Hill

Donald Routledge Hill

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 is of the opinion that the original manuscript may have been Greek

Greek language

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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.