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The double-headed eagle, representing the Holy Roman Empire, stands on a bobbin holding in its wings the outer sphere of the universe showing the elements of time from which the world is made: months, days, planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. Engraving by P. Miotte.
Date: [1646]Reference: 46390i
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Select mechanical exercises: shewing how to construct different clocks, orreries, and sun-dials. On plain and easy principles. With several miscellaneous articles, and new tables. I, for expeditiously computing the time of any new or full moon within ... 6,000 years before and after the 18th century ... II. For graduating and examining the usual lines ... To which is prefixed, a short account of the life of the author / by James Ferguson.
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776.Date: 1778- Pictures
Clocks: various forms of sundial. Engraving by J. Taylor.
Reference: 45220i- Books
Gvilielmi Blaev Institvtio astronomica de usu globorum et sphaerarum caelestium ac terrestrium. Dvabvs partibvs adornata, vna, secundum hypothesin Ptolemæi, per terram quiescentem / Altera, juxta mentem N. Copernici, per terram mobilem. Latinè reddita à M. Hortensio.
Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638.Date: 1668- Books
Praxis horologiorum expeditissima per quam varia horologiorum genera, praesertim verticalia per nouas tabulas facillimè describuntur / Io. Baptista Trotta Populensi Societatis Iesu auctore.
Trotta, Giovanni Battista, 1585-1656.Date: 1631