Taqi-Al-Din and Arabic Mechanical Engineering: With the Sublime Methods of Spiritual Machines an Arabic Manuscript of the Sixteenth Century

Aleppo: Institute for the History of Arabic Science, University of Aleppo, 1976. Ex-Library. Quarto bound in over-sized institutional additional boards with cloth spine; 87p, illustrations; fold-out illustrations; 28cm Ex-library with ink stamps to interior of front board, cover/title page and fore edge; sturdily bound and unmarked. Hardcover.

In Arabic with occasional English in footnotes. Seems quite fascinating! A facsimile of a 16th century arabic manuscript, published by the University of Aleppo and rebound by the University of Texas, Austin. About the author of the manuscript: "Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf ash-Shami al-Asadi (Arabic: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي; Ottoman Turkish: تقي الدين محمد بن معروف الشامي السعدي; Turkish: Takiyüddin‎ 1526–1585) was an Ottoman polymath active in Cairo and Istanbul. He was the author of more than ninety books on a wide variety of subjects, including astronomy, clocks, engineering, mathematics, mechanics, optics, and natural philosophy." --Wikipedia. | Spiritual Machines!