@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt14jxw3m.11,
 ISBN = {9780812246971},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14jxw3m.11},
 abstract = {The wheels and gears of Fortuna’s wheel in the painting fromLe Remede de Fortunerelate to developments in fine technology—especially the development of mechanical timekeepers—in the late medieval period. After the appearance of mechanical clocks at the cusp of the fourteenth century, clocks and automata were often found together. The Arabic tradition conjoined automata and water clocks as early as the ninth century, as seen on Harun al-Rashid’s gift to Charlemagne. Although the historical record testifies to water clocks in the Latin West as early as the late tenth century, there is no evidence of automata alongside},
 bookauthor = {E. R. Truitt},
 booktitle = {Medieval Robots: Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art},
 pages = {141--154},
 publisher = {University of Pennsylvania Press},
 title = {The Clockwork Universe: Keeping Sacred and Secular Time},
 year = {2015}
}