Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology : From Philo to al-Jazari – from Alexandria to Diyar Bakr

Name: Studies in Medieval Islamic Technology
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
SKU: 9780860786061
Price: 33150 KES
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ISBN: 9780860786061

by Donald R. Hill

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Format Hardback

Book Series Variorum Collected Studies

ISBN-10 0860786064

ISBN-13 9780860786061

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint Variorum

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 21st, 1998

Print length 400 Pages

Weight 804 grams

Dimensions 23.10 x 15.40 x 3.00 cms

Product Classification: General & world history Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 Social groups: religious groups and communities Islamic studies History General and world history Technology: general issues

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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.

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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