Document Details Cosmographia Pomponii Mele: autoris nitidissimi tribus libris digesta: parvo ...:
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- Title: Cosmographia Pomponii Mele: autoris nitidissimi tribus libris digesta: parvo ...
SubTitle: [The Cosmography of Pomponius Mela: contained in three books of this brilliant.. - Author: Pomponius Mela
- Publisher: Johannes Weyssenburger
Keywords: historic watch antique
Other Keywords: Peter Henlein Nuernberg
Language: LAT
Bibliography: Baillie, p.6
Notes: This cosmographia published 1512 contains a Compendium by Johann Dobneck (POSSIBLY ALSO PUBLISHED SEPERATLY IN 1911) which contains a text suggesting Peter Haenlein invented the watch. The reference is: "From day to day more ingenious discoveries are made, for Petrus Hele, a young man makes things which astonish the most learned mathematicians, for he makes out of a small quantity of iron horologia devised with very many wheels, and these horologia, in any position and without any weight, both indicate and pulsant [strike?] for 40 hours, even when they are carried on the breast or in te purse."
Edition: 1512 -- Copyright: 1512
Kind: Book
Type: Pocket Watch
Geographic area: Germany
Topic: History
Organization: NA/other
Print Status: 2 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: FMM
BHM No: 7356 - Publisher: Johannes Weyssenburger
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