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  • A prisoner is sitting on straw in a cave with his feet chained to the wall, there are a few provisions on a small shelf in the rock. Etching by R. Blyth after J.H. Mortimer.
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    MS Arabic 379

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    MS Arabic 557

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    Misura del tempo, cioe' trattato d'horologij da ruota di tre ordini. Rusticho, da campanile, pulito, da camera, e lustro da petto doue con regole facili, é certe s'insegna à fabricarli di nouo, et intender i fabricati : materia non più trattata, ò posta in luce d'alcuno opera curiosa ... con la quale ogn'vno può imparar ad accomodarli, & tenerli aggiustati, & in ordine / del p.f. Giuseppe da Capriglia Cappucino ... ; dedicata all'illustrissimo Signor conte Girolamo Frizimelica, lettor primario nello studio di Padoua.

    Giuseppe, da Capriglia. | Date: 1665
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    A tenth of a second : a history / Jimena Canales.

    Canales, Jimena. | Date: 2009
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    A prisoner is sitting on straw in a cave with his feet chained to the wall, there are a few provisions on a small shelf in the rock. Etching by R. Blyth after J.H. Mortimer.

    Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779. | Date: 1781 | Reference: 37841i
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