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Show The invention of clocks is by some ascribed to Pacificus, Archdeacon of Verona, in the ninth century, and by others to Boethine?, in the early part of the sixth. The Saracens are supposed to have had clocks which were moved by weights, as early as the eleventh century. Dante apples the name clock to a machine which struck the hours. They must have been known in Italy about the end of the third century. The most ancient clock of any certain account was erected in a tower of the palace of Charles V., of France in 1361, by a German artist. A clock was erected at Strasbourg in 1370. |