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Published by University of Baghdad, Baghdad, 1977
Seller: FOLIOS LIMITED, Witney, United Kingdom
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Mahmoud Obaidi (illustrator). 430 pp., Arabic text, title in Arabic and English, illustrations, b/w & colour plates, wrappers soiled and rubbed, light staining to endpaper, otherwise copy inside clean and in good condition, biblio., (of which 1 page is in English), Arab-Scientific Heritage Centre. The volume contains a facsimile of a manuscript by ibn al-Razaz al-Jazari (1136?1206), who was an Iraqi polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, who lived during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). He is best known for writing the Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them. #31847.