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Here: Al-Jazarī’s “Elephant Clock,” facsimile taken from: Ibn al-Razzāz al-Jazarī, Compendium on the Theory and Practice of the Mechanical Arts/al-Jāmi‘ bayn al-‘ilm wa-’l-‘amal an-nāfi‘ fī ṣinā‘at al-h.iyal, ed. Fuat Sezgin, Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Science, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt / Main, 2002, based on the manuscript from the Süleymanyie Library, Ayasofya 3606, 4

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