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 70
falls one foot per dayand was calculated to keep the apparatus going for forty-eight hours. Clock by Isaac Habrecht.—At the top of the main staircaseof the British Museum is a most curious clock, which was bequeathedto the nation by Mr. Octavius Morgan. It was constructed in i58gby Isaac Habrecht,… … Fig. 37.—Planetary clock of Oronce Fine. Fig. 38.—Clock by IsaacHabrecht. of the Strasburg clock, and on the sides of both are figures of thethree Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, and each is surmountedby a figure of the cock of St. Peter, which at the stroke of the hour 56 Old Clocks and…
Clocks and watches · Clock and watch makers
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