Des P. Dom Jacob Alexanders, Benedictiner-Ordens der Congregation St. Maur, Ausführliche Abhandlung von den Uhren überhaupt. : Mit vielen Kupfern / aus dem Frantzösischen in das Teutsche übersetzet, auch mit Anmerckungen erläutert und vermehret von D. Christian Philipp Berger, Gräsl. Schaumburgis. Lippischen Land-Physico.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: German Original language: French Publisher: Lemgo : Gedruckt bey Johann Henrich Meyer, 1738Description: [26], 408, [16] pages, [1], XXV [id est 27] leaves of plates (27 folded) : illustrations ; 8voContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Other title:
  • Ausführliche Abhandlung von Den Uhren überhaupt
Uniform titles:
  • Traité général des horloges. German
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room Rare TS542 .A54 1738 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000051454

T.p. printed in red and black.

Three folded leaves of tables included in pagination (as pages 35-36, 39-42, 165-166) but not in register.

Two plates are numbered IX and two XXIII.

Plates signed: Bernigeroth fil. sc.

Frontispiece, head- and tailpieces.

Includes index.

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First German language translation (annotated by the translator) of the 1734 French text on the science of clockmaking, beautiful allegorical frontispiece by Richter, 25 fold out plates by Bernigeroth [I-VII on sundial construction, VIII on a drum water clock, IX-XXV on mechanical horology] , contains the first substantial bibliography of horology [p.302-408], with separate chapters on sun dials [p.303-312], clepsydra [p.313-316], and mechanical clocks [p.316-408, chronological, with detailed summaries of the content of 35 horological books published 1326 (Wallingford) to 1731 (Derham 18 pages)]. Comprehensive Index of subjects and names

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