Design for an automaton, from 'Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices' by Al-Djazari, 1206 by Islamic School
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Title: Design for an automaton, from 'Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices' by Al-Djazari, 1206
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Artist: Islamic School
Product code: XIR182452
Edition type: Open edition
Publisher: Bridgeman Art Library
Copyright: © Bridgeman Art Library / Topkapi Palace Museum, Istanbul, Turkey / Giraudon
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Al Jaziri was a 13th century Muslim engineering genius and inventor; served the Urtuq court in Upper Mesopotamia in present-day Turkey; his name derives from the region of his birth, Al Jazira, between the Tigris and Euphrates; Traite sur les Procedes Mecaniques;
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