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 58
, and David Wolkstein, of Augsburg,undertook to supervise the completion of the horologium. Themechanical works were confided to Isaac and Josiah Habrecht,mechanicians of Schaffhausen, in Switzerland, while Tobias Stimmer(or Sturmer), of the same place, was employed to do the paintings andthe… … Fig. 32.—The Second Strassburg Clock Before, and at the foot of the clock, there was a celestial globesupported on four columns of wood richly carved. It performed a 42 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers revolution on its axis, showing the stars known in the time of Ptolemy,about A.D. 140.…
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