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 nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 314
ter with his usual acumen and patience, tillnothing was left for later artists to improve ; but now his mind wastaken up with astronomy and astronomical instruments, and the pro-duction of a perfect clock as an aid to the astronomer absorbed him,as I venture to suggest, almost to the exclusion of… … proper place was not wanting, but it was quite subsidiary to useful-ness. This trait is apparent in many little details of a splendidrepeating watch shown in Figs. 441 and 442made by him in 1714, when he was in thezenith of his power as a watchmaker, whichbelongs to Mr. Paul E. Schweder. Thus…
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