File:Al-Jazari Automata Elephant-Clock 1315.jpg
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[edit]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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Artist |
Abu'l Izz Isma'il al-Jazari (Author), Farkh ibn 'Abd al-Latif (Copyist) |
Title |
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) dimensions QS:P2048,30U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,19.7U174728 |
Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.51.23 Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956 |
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New York, USA. |
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current | 06:17, 16 March 2010 | 1,392 × 2,000 (2.17 MB) | Kimse (talk | contribs) | (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 2005 | 450 × 646 (99 KB) | GDK (talk | contribs) | Al-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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