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Days 6, 13, 24, 29 of 31 for @clovercrafted's Buildtober: Jumpscare, After Midnight, Haunted House, Full Moon
CUCKOO! CUCKOO! It's two in the morning, and the full moon shines bright - as the face of a cuckoo clock. Is the cuckoo clock the house that is haunted, or is it the house that hangs the clock upon its wall?
This upgrade on the cuckoo clock comes from an early 14th-century copy of the Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Badi' al-Zaman ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, a thinker based at the Artuqid court in what is now northern Iraq in the late eleventh or early twelfth centuries. Al-Jazari described how a chain reaction would take place every hour to signal the passage of time. I've tried to make a gif demonstrating the sequence of events below:
Materials: paper, ink, watercolors, gold
Date: 1315 AD (715 AH)
Origin: made by the scribe Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif, who may have been working in the area that is now Syria or Iraq
New York, Met Museum, 57.51.23