Syria: Table device automaton. Gold leaf on paper painting from Ismail al-Jazari's (1136-1206) 'Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices', 1315. Badi az-Zaman Abu l-Izz Ibn Ismail ibn ar-Razaz al-Jazari was a polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, who worked in service of the Artuqid dynasty in Diyarbakır, Asia Minor. He is best known for writing the 'Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiya' (Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206.
A painting on paper in color and gold leaf from al-Jazari's ' Kitab fi marifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya' (The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices). Abū al-'Iz Ibn Ismā'īl ibn al-Razāz al-Jazarī (1136–1206) was a polymath: a scholar, inventor, mechanical engineer, craftsman, artist, mathematician and astronomer from Al-Jazira, Mesopotamia, who worked in service of the Artuqid dynasty in Diyarbakır, Asia Minor. He is best known for writing the Kitáb fí ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) in 1206, where he described fifty mechanical devices along with instructions on how to construct them.
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