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"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari
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"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif · dated 715 AH/1315 CE · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

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Credit line"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari. dated 715 AH/1315 CE. Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Cora Timken Burnett, 1956. CC0.
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