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Clock and watch making

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  • A clock-maker is talking to a man outside his shop as he assembles a clock and an assistant works beyond. Woodcut by J. Amman.
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    God's clockmaker : Richard of Wallingford and the invention of time / John North.

    North, John David. | Date: 2005
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    Neu-vermehrte Welperische Gnomonica, oder gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung, wie man alle regulare Sonnen-Uhren auf ebenen Orten leichtlich aufreissen, allerhand ... kunstmassig verfertigen soll, Zum Drittenmahl aufgeleget und mit dem vierten Theil vermehret ... Nebst einem Anhang der kunstreiche Uhrmacher genannt [von W.D. M.A. i.e. W. Derham] ... aus dem Englischen in das Teutsche übersetzet durch einem Liebhaber der mathematischen Wissenschaften / [Eberhard Welper].

    Welper, Eberhard. | Date: 1708
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    The artificial clock-maker. A treatise of watch and clock-work. Shewing to the meanest capacities the art of calculating numbers to all sorts of movements ... and many instruments, tables and other matters never before published in any other book / By William Derham.

    Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735 | Date: [1759]
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    Old clocks and watches and their makers / [Frederick James Britten].

    Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913. | Date: 1911
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    A clock-maker is talking to a man outside his shop as he assembles a clock and an assistant works beyond. Woodcut by J. Amman.

    Amman, Jost, 1539-1591. | Date: [1568] | Reference: 34921i
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