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:
Table of Contents:
  • 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.