The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 187
at sign and degree are the planets 142 HOROLOGY. and tlie stars of the heavens; and this sphere is so cunningly made, that not-withstanding the multitude of wheels, which cannot well be numbered withouttaking the machinery to pieces, their entire mechanism is governed by onesingle counterpoise, so… … Fig. 144.—An Hour-glass of the Sixteenth Century.—French AVork. medicine, declare that there is no recollection of a man, either in writtendocument or otherwise, who in this world has made so ingenious or so important an instrument of the heavenly movements as the said clock Maistre Jean made the…
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