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.
Material type: TextLanguage: 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
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- Ausführliche Abhandlung von Den Uhren überhaupt
- Traité général des horloges. German
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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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