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"The Elephant Clock" from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari, 1315 (ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper)

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Islamic School, (14th century)

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

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ink and watercolour on paper

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1315 AD (C14th AD)

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'Kitab fi marifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya' transcribed by Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif from manuscript by Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari (1136–1206) 12th century Muslim engineering genius and inventor who served the Urtuq court in Upper Mesopotamia,now Turkey. His name is from the region of his birth, Al Jazira, between the Tigris and Euphrates.

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