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In medieval times the most creative mechanical developments took place in the Islamic world. Some of those engineering and technological achievements are little-known due to the fact that, at that time, knowledge passed from master to apprentice through direct experience without being recorded in any written form. In addition, few manuscripts were actually written and only a few of them have survived through time.
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Paz, E.B., Ceccarelli, M., Otero, J.E., Sanz, J.L.M. (2009). Medieval Machines and Mechanisms. In: A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8_4
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