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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 52

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of its construction (1480) is correct, thiscannot be true, for Lightfoot had then been dead some years. Thedial which still does duty bears a resemblance to the one of Eightfootsat Glastonbury, from which it was possibly copied. It shows thehour of the day, and the age of the moon ; upon the face… … Fig. 29. 38 Old Clocks and WatcJies and their Makers. representing the earth, round which a smaller ball, the moonpainted half white and half black, revolves every month, and inturning upon its axis shows the varying phases of the luminary which it represents; be-tween the two circles is athird…

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