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Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology
From Philo to al-Jazari – from Alexandria to Diyar Bakr
- 400 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology
From Philo to al-Jazari – from Alexandria to Diyar Bakr
About this book
These studies represent the major contributions to the history of Islamic technology during the second half of the 20th century beside Donald Hill's separate publications on the mechanical devices of Pseudo-Apollonios, the Banu Musa and al-Jazari. A gifted linguist who was trained as a historian of Islamic civilisation, and also a professional engineer, Hill achieved his goal of setting his subject on a solid basis. The papers reprinted here include his early studies of the trebuchet and the camel and horse, several overviews of different aspects of Islamic technology, articles on specific topics such as the Cairo Nilometer and al-Biruni's geared luni-solar device, and the first notice of an extremely important Andalusian treatise on mechanical devices discovered in 1975.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Publisher’s Note
- Editorial Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Donald Routledge Hill, 1922–1994
- Donald Routledge Hill – Publications
- Islamic Technology (General)
- Greek Technology
- Islamic Technology (Specific)
- Technology in Andalusia
- Technology and War
- Indexes (names of persons, modem scholars, titles of books, topics, technical terms)