A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata
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A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata
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Author : Simon Harcourt-Smith
language : en
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Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata written by Simon Harcourt-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Art objects categories.
Taste for clocks and other mechanical curiosities of the West seems to have invaded the court of China at an early date ; already at the beginning of the fourteenth century a French ironsmith, Guillaume Boucher, probably a prisoner brought back from some Mongol raid into Hungary, had constructed for the first Yuan Emperor of China an elaborate clock with fountains ; and when, in 1599, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in Peking he secured Imperial favour and an entry to the Court largely by a gift of clocks. It was, however, only at the end of the seventeenth century, in the reign of K'ang Hsi, that clocks in great numbers began to invade the Palace. This enlightened monarch, who was filled with an admiration, rare in his dynasty, for the arts and sciences of Europe, welcomed learned Jesuit mathematicians and philosophers to his Court, and formed a collection of scientific instruments and time-pieces of all descriptions. -- Introduction.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Dating From The Xviiith And The Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping
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Author : Simon Harcourt Smith
language : en
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Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Dating From The Xviiith And The Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping written by Simon Harcourt Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Beijing
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Author : Simon Harcourt-Smith
language : en
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Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Beijing written by Simon Harcourt-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The 18th And The Early 19th Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping
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language : en
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Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The 18th And The Early 19th Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Clocks and watches categories.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Misvellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And Wu Ying Tien Peiping
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Author : Simon Harcourt-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Misvellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And Wu Ying Tien Peiping written by Simon Harcourt-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The T H And The Early T H Centuries In The Palace Museun And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping
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Author : Simon Harcourt-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The T H And The Early T H Centuries In The Palace Museun And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping written by Simon Harcourt-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping By Simon Harcourt Smith With Plates
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Author : Palace Museum (PEKING)
language : en
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Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping By Simon Harcourt Smith With Plates written by Palace Museum (PEKING) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Wu Ying Tien Peiping
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Author : Palace museum (Pékin)
language : en
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Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneous Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Wu Ying Tien Peiping written by Palace museum (Pékin) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneou Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping
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Author : Simon Harcourt-Smith
language : en
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Release Date : 1933
A Catalogue Of Various Clocks Watches Automata And Other Miscellaneou Objects Of European Workmanship Dating From The Xviiith And The Early Xixth Centuries In The Palace Museum And The Wu Ying Tien Peiping written by Simon Harcourt-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with categories.
European Clocks And Watches In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
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Author : Clare Vincent
language : en
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Release Date : 2015-11-25
European Clocks And Watches In The Metropolitan Museum Of Art written by Clare Vincent and has been published by Metropolitan Museum of Art this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-25 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.