Wonder clock of Liège [Horology] BOUTTATS, Pieter Plate of the "Chronometrum mirabile Leodiense". [Liège, G. Barnabé, or Engr., x 48,5 cm, old hand-coloured (underlaid). Rare and lavishly coloured depiction of a timepiece from Thomas Hildeyard's treatise "Descriptio horologii recens inventi [...]" (1st Fr. ed.: 1726). Th. Hildeyard (1690-1746), a professor of philosophy at Liège with remarkable scientific abilities, was renowned for one of the finest specimens of 18th-c. horology. The clock today forms part of the Spanish royal collections in Madrid. Ref. Ghent University Library. - Dictionary of National Biography 26/- Centro Virtual Cervantes. - Hilton, M.; Shefrin, J. - Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices (Ashgate 2009), pp. 138-
Wonder clock of Liège [Horology] BOUTTATS, Pieter Plate of the "Chronometrum mirabile Leodiense". [Liège, G. Barnabé, or Engr., x 48,5 cm, old hand-coloured (underlaid). Rare and lavishly coloured depiction of a timepiece from Thomas Hildeyard's treatise "Descriptio horologii recens inventi [...]" (1st Fr. ed.: 1726). Th. Hildeyard (1690-1746), a professor of philosophy at Liège with remarkable scientific abilities, was renowned for one of the finest specimens of 18th-c. horology. The clock today forms part of the Spanish royal collections in Madrid. Ref. Ghent University Library. - Dictionary of National Biography 26/- Centro Virtual Cervantes. - Hilton, M.; Shefrin, J. - Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices (Ashgate 2009), pp. 138-
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