Studies in medieval Islamic technology: from Philo to al-Jazari- from Alexandia to Diyar Bakr/

Main Author: Hill, Donald Routledge
Other Authors: King, David A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998
Series:Variorum collected studies series CS555
Subjects:
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245 1 0 |a Studies in medieval Islamic technology:   |b from Philo to al-Jazari- from Alexandia to Diyar Bakr/  |c Donald R. Hill ; edited by David A. King 
260 |a Aldershot:  |b Ashgate,  |c 1998 
300 |a 1 v. (various paging) :  |b ill. ;  |c 23 cm. 
490 0 |a Variorum collected studies series  |v CS555 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p.). 
505 0 |a Contents: Islamic fine technology and its influence on the development of European horology / Donald Routledge Hill -- Medieval Arabic mechanical technology / Donald Routledge Hill -- From Philo to al-Jazari / Donald Routledge Hill -- Arabic fine technology and its influence on European mechanical engineering / Donald Routledge Hill -- Arabic mechanical engineering : survey of the historical sources / Donald Routledge Hill -- Information on engineering in the works of Muslim geographers / Donald Routledge Hill -- Mining Technology / Donald Routledge Hill with A. Y. Al-Hassan -- Hydraulic machines / Donald Routledge Hill -- Les oevres de Hron et leur contexte historique / Donald Routledge Hill -- Construction of a fluting machine by Apollonius the carpenter / Donald Routledge Hill -- The nilometer / Donald Routledge Hill -- The Banu Musa and their Book of ingenious devices / Donald Routledge Hill -- Qusta ibn Luqa / Donald Routledge Hill -- Al-Biruni's mechanical calendar / Donald Routledge Hill -- Al-Jazari / Donald Routledge Hill -- Notice of an important al-Jazari manuscript / Donald Routledge Hill -- A treatise on machines by Ibn Muadh Abu Abdallah al-Jayyani [the treatise is by Ibn Khalaf al-Muradi. Ed] / Donald Routledge Hill -- Andalusian technology / Donald Routledge Hill -- Trebuchets / Donald Routledge Hill -- The camel and the horse and the early Arab conquests. 
650 0 |a Technology  |x History  |z Islamic Empire 
700 1 |a King, David A.  
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