Picture No | 10052557 |
Date | 16th century |
Description | Lamp Timekeeper |
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The LAMP TIMEKEEPER is used by Felipe II of Spain, and his contemporaries, to mark time at night, the level of liquid dropping slowly through the night, measured against marks
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Source | cigarette card by an unnamed artist in Morris's series 'Measurement of Time' (1924) |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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