{"book":"adl0613","page":8,"text":"۵\nمیزان المسافة\nمیزان المسافة فنی است که بدو شناخته می شود مسافت\nبعیده بطریق خط مستقیم اعم از انکه مقام مقصود مرتفع و معوج\nیا فراز و نشیب یا متحرک و مستقیم باشد. و آلات این فن عبارت\nاز دوربین و قرقره و دوریسمانیکه طول هر یک دوازده و نیم\nذرع و دسته که گیرای وی بجهت سهولت گرفتن در استعمال\nاست میباشد. فایده و نتیجه این اختراع پیشتر دریافتن بعد\nمسافت معسکر دشمن است بجهت تیر رس و غیره - از این است\nکه غالباً دارای این فن سرعسکران بزرگ دولت و استعمالش\nنیز در آن مورد است - و ما ترجمه رساله انگلیشیه را عیناً بجهت\nمحدود بودن قلم در ترجمه بترتیب سیاق مینگاریم - و تشریحات\nو توضیحات زاید از ترجمه بجهت تفهیم و تفهم و تعلیم و تعلم باسمه\nتوضیح ذیل همان نمره نوشته میشود\nنمره ۱ - میکا میتر یعنی میزان المسافة آله است بجهت دریافتن\nمسافت خواه بواسطه بُعد یا رهائی از زحمت سیر باشد -","chars":771,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0613/00008.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":57,"title":"Mīzān al-masāfah مىزان المسافه","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0613/8","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0613/canvas/8","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0613/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0613_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}