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The balance al-Khazini built for Sanjar's treasury was modeled after the balance al-Asfizari, who was a generation older than al-Khazini, built. [7] Sanjar's treasurer out of fear destroyed al-Asfizari's balance; he was filled with grief when he heard the news. [7] Al-Khazini called his balance "combined balance" to show honor towards Al ...
Abu Jafar Muhammad ibn Husayn Khazin (Persian: ابوجعفر خازن خراسانی; 900–971), also called Al-Khazin, was an Iranian [1] ...
Khazen (also El-Khazen, Al-Khazen, Khazin or De Khazen; Arabic: آل الخازن) is a prominent Arab Levantine family and clan based in Keserwan District, Lebanon, Damascus, Syria, Nablus, Palestine, as well as other districts around the Levant, predominantly in the Galilee in Israel. The family were very influential within the Maronite Church.
Al-Isfazārī was a contemporary of the Persian polymath Umar al-Khayyam and the Persian astronomer Al-Khazini. Al-Isfazārī's main surviving work, Irshād dhawī al-cirfān ilā ṣinācat al-qaffān (Guiding the Possessors of Learning in the Art of the Steelyard), sets out the theory of the steelyard balance with unequal arms.
In al-Haytham's Book of Optics he argues that the celestial spheres were not made of solid matter, and that the heavens are less dense than air. [17] Some astronomers theorized about gravity too, al-Khazini suggests that the gravity an object contains varies depending on its distance from the center of the universe. The center of the universe ...
In 2018, it was officially renamed as al-Khazini Department, named after al-Khazini. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Established in 1966 with efforts led by Abdus Salam , [ 3 ] the institute was located in Rawalpindi , Punjab Province and offered research in mathematics and theoretical physics. [ 4 ]
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The 12th-century scholar Al-Khazini suggested that the gravity an object contains varies depending on its distance from the centre of the universe (referring to the centre of the Earth). Al-Biruni and Al-Khazini studied the theory of the centre of gravity, and generalized and applied it to three-dimensional bodies.