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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.

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.

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.

A seated woman personifying history and a man representing time gesturing towards the socle of a pair of columns decorated with portrait ovals; above, Fame holds her trumpet. Engraving by C. Duflos le père, 1725, after J. Desmarets.

Event and time / Claude Romano ; translated by Stephen E. Lewis.

Altered states of consciousness : experiences out of time and self / Marc Wittmann ; translated by Philippa Hurd.

The philosophy of time : a collection of essays / edited by Richard M. Gale.

Durée et simultanéité : à propos de la théorie d'Einstein / par Henri Bergson.

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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.

Event and time / Claude Romano ; translated by Stephen E. Lewis.

Altered states of consciousness : experiences out of time and self / Marc Wittmann ; translated by Philippa Hurd.

The philosophy of time : a collection of essays / edited by Richard M. Gale.

Durée et simultanéité : à propos de la théorie d'Einstein / par Henri Bergson.