Some links:
Salisbury cathedral clock
De Dondi
Cotehele clock
Dating the Salisbury Clock This site has a lot of great information
Gothic Iron Clocks Some nice pictures, follow the links to other pages for more images
Turret clocks in the United Kingdom
Iron Gothic Clock c1595 Italian
James Burke: Connections "Wheel of Fortune" an old television show part of which features the history of clocks on You Tube
History of clocks and watches
Books:(I made these link to amazon to see info on them easier)
The Almanus Manuscript This is like the holy grail of clock descriptions! Almost wish that I had seen this last year! I think I learned more reverse engineering the clock myself on paper, but if i was ever to do it again this would be of great help!! Thank you Robert MacPherson for showing me this one!
History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders (very good book about history of time keeping; sundials, water clocks, mechanical clocks etc and how time keeping influenced society in general)
Britten's Old Clocks & Watches and Their Makers (chapter 1 covers the time period I am dealing with, but do look at the whole book!)
Wheel and Pinion Cutting in Horology: A Historical Guide (chapter 1, rest is very interesting though)
Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China
Britten's Watch and Clock Maker's Handbook, Dictionary and Guide (this book has only a small amount on old clocks but describes how all types of mechanisms work in modern as well as historical clocks)
Some images:
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| Sain Augustine in His Study, Sandro Botticelli 1480 |
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| Detail from Children of the Planets: Mercury and his Children by Meister Hausbuch circa 1475-80 |
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| 14th Century Monastic Clock? I can find no real info on this one |
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| L'Horloge de Sapience (the Clock of Wisdom) from about 1450 |
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| Richard of Wallingford is measuring with a pair of compasses in this 14th century miniature. |
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| This drawing was made in the 19th century and only shows what a 19th century author thought a 14th century clock looked like. The Moinet drawing is often used to show the design of 14th century clocks and is supposed to be a drawing of the clock installed at the Palais de Justice in Paris in 1370 by Heinrich von Wieck. |
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| Horologia Ferrea / [by Theodor Galle after Jan van der Straet]. (1638) |
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| A type of Alarum clock made in the fifteenth(or even fourteenth) century. From Brittens Old Clocks and Watches |
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| No info on this one either, I think I found the picture from a museum website that has since closed |
Solamente relojes monumentales, reloj de torre, relojes antiguos grandes.
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