When I looked at the science of engineering and saw that it had disappeared after its ancient heritage, that its masters have perished, and that their memories are now forgotten, I worked my wits and thoughts in secrecy about philosophical shapes and figures, which could move the mind, with effort, from nothingness to being and from idleness to motion. And I arranged these shapes one by one in drawings and explained them.
scientist and engineer
Alī Ibn Khalaf al-Murādī (11th century) Al-Andalus, was a mechanical engineer and author of the unique technological manuscript entitled Kitāb al-asrār fī natā'ij al-afkār (The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas).
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Alternative Names:
Alī Ibn Khalaf al-Murādī
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Al-Muradi
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Aḥmad ibn Khalaf
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