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 68
o show the phases of themoon. On the second disc, 4 ft. i^ in. in diameter, but of whichonly the outer rim is seen, are twenty-nine divisions, and a triangularpointer, projecting from behind the central disc, shows the moonsage in days. The largest of the three discs is 7 ft. 10 in. in… … Fig. 36.—Dial of Hampton Court Palace clock. the second the days of the months (only twenty-eight for February),the third the signs of the zodiac, and on the rim, with 30° foreach space filled by a sign, a circle divided into 360 parts. A longpointer with a gilded figure of the sun attached,…
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