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 189
ord is derived from the IjQitin jaccomar-chiardus (coat of mail—attire of war) ; and he reminds us that, in the MiddleAges, it was the custom to station, on the summit of the towers, men (soldierswearing the jacque) to give warning of the approach of the enemy, of fires,&c. Menage adds that,… … Fig. 146.—Clock with AVheels and Weights. Fifteenth Century.(Cabinet of Antiquities, Bibl. Nat., Paris.) iron figures which struck the hours. Other writers trace the name even tothe inventor of this description of clocks, who, according to them, lived inthe fourteenth century, and was called…
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