Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 27
^. … Fig. g. Fig. 10. us that Pompey brought a valuable one among the spoils from theeastern nations, which he made use of for limiting the speeches ofthe Roman orators. Julius Cffisar is said to have met with aninstrument of the kind in England, by the help of which heobserved that the summer nights of…
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