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The earliest extant illustration of such a clock is in an illuminated manuscript of 1406 in the Na- tional Library ... Early French spring - driven clocks employed a device called a fusee to equalize the force of the uncoiling spring .
The earliest extant illustration of such a clock is in an illuminated manuscript of 1406 in the Na- tional Library ... Early French spring - driven clocks employed a device called a fusee to equalize the force of the uncoiling spring .
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Early pieces were impressed with a die only on one side ; the reverse side was blank . ... The silver coinages of Aegina , Corinth , Chal- cis , and Eretria arose about 650 B. C. The early pieces of Athens ( about 594 B. C. ) with the ...
Early pieces were impressed with a die only on one side ; the reverse side was blank . ... The silver coinages of Aegina , Corinth , Chal- cis , and Eretria arose about 650 B. C. The early pieces of Athens ( about 594 B. C. ) with the ...
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He was not the first European to land in the Americas : adventurers from Norway , Iceland , or Greenland , in the late 10th and early 11th centuries , had almost certainly settled briefly in Newfoundland and may have landed elsewhere on ...
He was not the first European to land in the Americas : adventurers from Norway , Iceland , or Greenland , in the late 10th and early 11th centuries , had almost certainly settled briefly in Newfoundland and may have landed elsewhere on ...
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| Title | The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 7 The Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Incorporated, ISBN 0717201317, 9780717201310 |
| Contributor | Grolier Incorporated |
| Publisher | Grolier Incorporated, 1999 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 25 May 2011 |
| ISBN | 0717201317, 9780717201310 |
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