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Islamic Automation : A Reading of al-Jazari ’ s The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices ( 1206 )

@inproceedings{Nadarajan2007IslamicA,
  title={Islamic Automation : A Reading of al-Jazari ’ s The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices ( 1206 )},
  author={Gunalan Nadarajan},
  year={2007}
}
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