Taqi al-Din wa-al Handasah al-Mikanikiyah al-‘Arabiyah + Kitab al-Turuq al-Siniyah fi al-‘Alat al-Ruhaniyah min al-Qarn al-Sadis ‘Ashar.

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75 pp. of Arabic text + 88 pp. of fascimile from original manuscripts; publisher's original wrappers; index, biblio, biography, figures, b/w photographs; copy clean and in good condition; Aleppo University Publications, Aleppo, no date mentioned. Note: Taqi al-Din (1521-1585) was born in Damascus and was educated in Cairo. He was a mathematician, astronomer, optician and a mechanical scholar. He is famous as founder and director of Istanbul observatory. He made various astronomical instruments and for the first time he used automatic-mechanic clock in his astronomical observation. This work was written when the author was 26 years old. he focuses on the geometrical and mechanical analysis of the structure of the clock, in the frame of the Islamic tradition of ‘Ilm Al-Hiyal in which outstanding treatises were left by Banu Musa and Al-Jazarri