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=== Sources used === * {{Cite book | last1 =al-Hassan | first1 =Ahmad Y. | author-link =Ahmad Y Hassan | last2 =Hill | first2 =Donald R. | author2-link =Donald Routledge Hill | year =1986 | title =Islamic Technology: An Illustrated History | publisher =Cambridge University Press | isbn =0-521-26333-6 | oclc =13332728 | url-access =registration | url =https://archive.org/details/islamictechnolog0000hasa }} * {{Cite book |last1=Cotterell |first1=Brian |last2=Kamminga |first2=Johan |title=Mechanics of pre-industrial technology: An introduction to the mechanics of ancient and traditional material culture |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1990 |isbn=0-521-42871-8 |oclc=18520966}} * {{Cite book | last =Cowan | first =Harrison J. | year =1958 | title =Time and Its Measurement: From the stone age to the nuclear age | place =Ohio | publisher =The World Publishing Company | bibcode =1958tmfs.book.....C }} * {{Citation | title = Mathematical Models of Water Clocks | url = http://www.nawcc-index.net/Articles/Goodenow-WaterClocks.pdf | last1 = Goodenow| first1 = Jennifer | last2 = Orr | first2 = Richard | last3 = Ross | first3 = David | publisher = Rochester Institute of Technology | year = 2007 }} * {{Cite book | last =Hill | first =D.R. | author-link =Donald Routledge Hill | year =1981 | title =Arabic Water–Clocks | place =Syria | publisher =University of Aleppo}} * {{Cite book | last = Lewis | first = Michael | year = 2000 | contribution = Theoretical Hydraulics, Automata, and Water Clocks | editor-last = Wikander | editor-first = Örjan | editor-link = Örjan Wikander | title = Handbook of Ancient Water Technology | series = Technology and Change in History | location = Leiden | volume = 2 | pages = 343–369 (356f.) | isbn = 90-04-11123-9 }} * {{cite book |last=Needham |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Needham |date=1986 |title=Science & Civilization in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering |location=Taipei |publisher=Caves Books}} * {{Cite book |last=Needham |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Needham |year=1995 |title=Science & Civilisation in China: Volume 3, Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-05801-5 |oclc= 153247126}} * {{Cite book |last=Needham |first=Joseph |author-link=Joseph Needham |year=2000 |title=Science & Civilisation in China: Volume 4, Physics and Physical Technology, Part 2, Mechanical Engineering |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=0-521-05803-1 |oclc= 153247141}} * {{Cite journal | last=Neugebauer | first=Otto | author-link=Otto E. Neugebauer | year=1947 | title=Studies in Ancient Astronomy. VIII. The Water Clock in Babylonian Astronomy | journal=Isis | volume=37 | issue=1/2 | pages=37–43 | doi=10.1086/347965 | pmid=20247883 | s2cid=120229480 }} (Reprinted in {{cite book | last=Neugebauer | first=Otto |title=Astronomy and History: Selected Essays |year=1983 | pages=239–245}}) * {{cite book |title=The Genius of China: 3000 years of science, discovery and invention |url=https://archive.org/details/geniusofchina3000temp/page/55 |url-access=limited |last1=Temple |first1= Robert |year=1986 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |location=New York |page=55 |isbn=9780671620288 }} * {{Cite book |last=Turner |first=Anthony J. |year=1984 |title=The Time Museum |volume =I: ''Time Measuring Instruments''; Part 3: ''Water-clocks'', ''Sand-glasses'', ''Fire-clocks'' |isbn=0-912947-01-2 |publisher=The Museum |location=Rockford, IL |oclc =159866762}}
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