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| From top: Page showing a waterclock in the shape of a boat from Al-Jazari, Kitab al-jami' bayna al-'ilm wa al-'amal al-nafi' fi sina'at al-hiyal, Syria 1315 (Kuwait: Al-Sabah Collection); From Ibn Bakhtishu, Kitab manafi' al-hayawan, Baghdad c. 1250 (London: British Library); Page from a 1344 copy of Al-Hariri, Maqamat, showing a doctor visiting a patient (Vienna: Oesterreichische Nationalbibliothek)
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