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Islamic technology - general: Islamic fine technology and its influence on the development of European horology; medieval Arabic mechanical technology; from Philo to al-Jazari; Arabic fine technology and its influence on European mechanical engineering; Arabic mechanical engineering - survey of the historical sources; information on technology in the works of Muslim geographers; mining technology; hydraulic machines. Greek technology: les oeuvres de Heron et leur contexte historique; construction of a flaunting machine by Apollonius the Carpenter. Islamic technology - specific: the nilometer; the Banu Musa and their "Book of ingenious devices"; Qusta Ibn Luga al-Biruni's mechanical calendar; al-Jazari; notice of an important al-Jazari manuscript. technology in Andalusia: a treatise on machine by Ibn Mu adh Abu Abdallah al-Jayyani; Andalusian technology. Technology and war: Trebuchet; the camel and the horse and the early Arab conquests.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology
• Author: Donald R. Hill
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780860786061
• ISBN: 0860786064
• ID: 04744858
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 804 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 154 × 30 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. December 1998

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