The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 226
France alreadyhad jacquemarts. The first clock possessed by Paris was that in the turret of the Palaisde Justice. Charles V. had it constructed in 1370 by a German artisan,Henri de Vic. It contained a weight for moving power, an oscillatingpiece for regulator, and an escapement. It was adorned with… … Fig. 146.—Clock with Wheels and Weights. Fifteenth Century.(Cabinet of Antiquities, Bibl. Imp., Paris.) in Sweden, date from the same period. In the last, every hour twocavaliers met and gave each other as many blows as the hours to bestruck : then a door opened, and the Virgin Mary appeared…
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