these latter (the one hour directly upon provided with a style of lamp that permitted of seeing, facing the burner of the lamp) was the floor with a con- read the hours of the night cast in the hour despite the darkness, Such was the clepsydra siderable enlarge- relief. They began at 4 o’clock in… … pire (Figs. 5 and 6), time at night. and consisting of a The sixteenth cen- copper case, having upon its tury was peculiarly prolific face a magic lantern object- in matters of clockwork, both ive, bebind which there is a as regards inventions and de ‘ glass dial upon which the Ww coration, and we…
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