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The Elephant Clock (mechanical clock, which moves every half an hour). From Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, a.k.a. Automata), written in 1206 CE
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Abu'l Izz Isma'il al-Jazari (Author), Farkh ibn 'Abd al-Latif (Copyist)
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The Elephant Clock (mechanical clock, which moves every half an hour). From Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices, a.k.a. Automata), written in 1206 CE
Date 1315, probably Syria
Medium illustrated manuscript, Ink, colors, and gold on paper
Dimensions height: 30 cm (11.8 in); width: 19.7 cm (7.7 in)
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.51.23 Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956
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current06:17, 16 March 2010Thumbnail for version as of 06:17, 16 March 20101,392 × 2,000 (2.17 MB)Kimse(Uploading full-resolution version from http://www.metmuseum.org/search/iquery.asp?pWoaAdvSearch=1&pKeyAcc=57.51.23 (Metropolitan Museum Collection Database website, accession number 57.51.23), http://www.metmuseum.org/Imageshare/is/zoom/is57.51.23.R.jpg)
10:18, 10 November 2005Thumbnail for version as of 10:18, 10 November 2005450 × 646 (99 KB)GDKAl-Jazari: The Elephant Clock (mechanical clock, which moves every half an hour) from al-Jazari's ''Kitab fi macrifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya'' (''The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices'', a.k.a. ''Automata'') folio from an illustrated man
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