Inside the Nuh Camii complex in Cizre lies the tomb of Ebu'l-İz El Cezeri, whom the culture portal describes as a scientist, an engineer and a pioneer of cybernetics. In his work Kitab-ı Hiyel he set out, with detailed descriptions, his automatic machines, water clocks, water pumps, water levels and musical instruments.
The book gives designs for close to fifty devices, among them water clocks, candle clocks, a boat-shaped water clock, ewers, automata made for entertainment and for ritual ablution, bloodletting basins, fountains, devices that make sounds of their own, machines for raising water, locks and an instrument for measuring angles.
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- Climate
- Across Şırnak as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 2.6 °C in January to 29.2 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in March (120 mm) and lightest in August (1 mm). Long-term means for 1970-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
