Clepsidras y horologios musulmanes

Abstract

La ciencia griega combinó el reloj de agua con autómatas. Los relojes y clepsidras de la Antigüedad y los bizantinos fueron adaptados por los musulmanes para el ritual litúrgico. En al-Andalus el emir Muhammad I tuvo un minkan construido en Córdoba. En Toledo al-Muradi en el siglo XI estudia una serie de horologios. En los siglos XII y XIII los principales artífices y tratadistas musulmanes son al-Jazini, Ridwan y al-ìazari. Los relojes de Fez y Tremecén fueron quizá el antecedente directo del minkan nazarí que describe Ibn al-Jatib en 1362.

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.