Brearley, Harry Chase, 1870-, Ingersoll, Robt. H., & Bro · New York, Pub. by Doubleday, Page & Co. for Robert H. Ingersol & Bros. · leaf 144
art of each one. Shakespeare never regarded a watch seriously. In LovesLabour s Lost he compares a woman to zA (jerman clock,Still a-repairing, ever out of frame,iAnd never going aright, being a watch— A century after Shakespeares day, Doctor Johnson re-marked that a dictionary was like a watch:… … The Nuremburg Egg, the First Real Watch Out of a little iron, Peter Henlein constructs clocks which* * can be carried in the pocket.—so wrote JohannesCoeleus, in 1511. Time Telling Through the Ages [y. To the average museum visitor, the interest in>n of old watches, aside from their historic…
Time measurements · Clocks and watches
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