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 56
genuity. It was projected in1547; but though the designs appear to have been then ready, theexecution went no further than the building of the chamber and thepreparation of some of the heavier ironwork, till 1570, when ConradDasypodius, a mathematician of Strasburg, undertook to supervisethe… … Fig. 31.—The Second Strasburg Clock,place, was employed to do the paintings and the sculpture whichwere to serve as decorations of the achievement. 42 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. Before, and at the foot of the clock, there was a celestial globesupported on four columns of wood richly…
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