Clepsidras y horologios musulmanes

Abstract

Greek science combined the water clock with mechanical devices. The clocks and clepsydras of Antiquity and the Byzantines were adapted by the Muslims for their liturgical rituals. In al-Andalus the Emir Muhammad I had a minkan built in Córdoba. In eleventh-century Toledo al-Muradi studied a series of clocks. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the main Muslim artificers and writers of treatises were al-Jazini, Ridwan and al-yazari. The clocks of Fez and Tremecén were perhaps the direct antecedents of the minkan nasrid described by Ibn al-Jatib in 1362.