Nova Reperta, The Invention of the Clockwork

PLATE 5. The Invention of the Clockwork. Fifth plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of a clockmaker's workshop. In the middle ground on the left a man heats metal over the fire, and on the right a man examines the weight-driven clocks on the wall. In the foreground on the left workers tend to the creation of different parts of the small spring-driven table clocks. In the foreground at the center two men work on a larger clock

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1600 1600s Clockmaker Clockwork Collaert Horology Inventions Keeper Keeping Measure Measurement Nova Reperta Seventeeth Technological Telling Time-keeper Time-keeping Time-telling Timekeeping Timepiece

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