• Born: 1136
  • Died: 1206
  • Full name: Abū al-'Iz Ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī
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  • Areas of expertise: Iraqi polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer
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أَبُو اَلْعِزِ بْنُ إسْماعِيلِ بْنُ الرِّزاز الجزري‎ from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, who lived during the Islamic Golden Age (Middle Ages). He is best known for writing the Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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