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  • A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177-.
  • Clocks: a large carved stone gnomon, dated 1714, on Lord Reay's estate at Tongue. Lithograph after a drawing by C. G. Loch.
  • A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177-.
  • The arts of Minerva reduce the power of Time to end life, but death from old age or from plague still exists. Engraving by G. Glover, 1639.
  • A bracket clock (shelf clock, mantel clock). Construction and assembly by John Leroux, 177-.
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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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    Father Time holding a scythe: four studies. Etching by R. Earlom, 1787, after G.B. Cipriani.

    Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785. | Date: Feb.ry 1st 1787 | Reference: 2952442i
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    On time and imagination = De tempore; De spiritu fantastico / Robert Kilwardby ; edited by P. Osmund Lewry.

    Kilwardby, Robert, -1279. | Date: 1987
    • Books

    Bio auto graphic : 'day' & night / by Michael C. Nicholson.

    Nicholson, Michael C. (Michael Christopher), 1962- | Date: 2010
    • Books

    Time / Eva Hoffman.

    Hoffman, Eva, 1945- | Date: 2009
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