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... workshop at the Sign of the Golden Spectacles in 166845 and Thomas Hailes at the Sign of the Telescope and Spectacles in St Paul's Churchyard in 1692.46 An optician of the name of Mellin or Mellen who worked in England between 1670 and ...
... workshop at the Sign of the Golden Spectacles in 166845 and Thomas Hailes at the Sign of the Telescope and Spectacles in St Paul's Churchyard in 1692.46 An optician of the name of Mellin or Mellen who worked in England between 1670 and ...
Page 103
... workshop in- stalled in his own house l'Hôtel de Mortagne , rue de Charonne , in which he had models of machines constructed and tried out those which were presented to him or which he himself had invented . He greatly improved the ...
... workshop in- stalled in his own house l'Hôtel de Mortagne , rue de Charonne , in which he had models of machines constructed and tried out those which were presented to him or which he himself had invented . He greatly improved the ...
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... workshop which , in its early stages was of average importance for the range of instruments we are studying , but , by the end of the century had become one of the leading enterprises of its kind . Its origins date back to the middle of ...
... workshop which , in its early stages was of average importance for the range of instruments we are studying , but , by the end of the century had become one of the leading enterprises of its kind . Its origins date back to the middle of ...
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Illustrations | 6 |
The Workshops of the Seventeenth Century | 77 |
Economic and Social Factors | 90 |
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