The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35

At the lower left corner below the figure of Atlas upholding the world is the phrase, _Assidvo proni donant di cvncta labori_. (The favorable gods willingly grant all things to...

When the clock had been completed and proved to work successfully, Borghesi once more reduced a description of the clock and its function to published form in a second little vo...

Perpendicularly under the center of the machine, two other indices are carried about one and the same center. The one nearer to the observer--bearing in one of two points diamet...

Little by little, Borghesi managed to acquire the basic texts that explained this new world to him, probably borrowing them from old seminary friends. As each new book came into...

Father Tovazzi states that in 1780 "the clock invented by him [Borghesi] was preserved in Vienna, Austria, at the Imperial Court from which the inventor was receiving an annual...

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