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Mechanical movements

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    A treatise of the mechanical powers, wherein the laws of motion, and the properties of those powers are explained and demonstrated in an easy and familiar Method. Being the Substance of certain Discourses delivered at the Geometry-Lecture, at Gresham-College. By Andrew Motte.

    Motte, Andrew, -1734. | Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]
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    The book of knowledge of ingenious mechanical devices / translated [from the Arabic] and annotated by Donald R. Hill.

    Jazarī, Ismāʻīl ibn al-Razzāz, active 1181-1204. | Date: [1974]
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    The book of ingenious devices (Kitāb al-ḥiyal) / by the Banū (sons of) Mūsà bin Shākir ; translated and annotated by Donald R. Hill.

    Ibn Shākir, Muḥammad ibn Mūsá, -873. | Date: [1979], ©1979
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