Chasovoe iskusstvo: chasy XVI – XVII vekov v sobranii Ermitazha (Clockmaking: perfect timing. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century clocks and watches in the Hermitage collection)
St. Petersburg: Herm, 2016. Sewn pb. Clocks in the Hermitage from the first third of the sixteenth century show that the intricate mechanisms of the new inventions ( using springs instead of weights, for example) were conceived not as mere tools for measuring time but as fine works of applied..... More




