History of Watches/1500-1600 Clock-watches

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history and/or watches:

    “A great proportion of the inhabitants of the Cape are always thus abroad about their teaming on some ocean highway or other, and the history of one of their ordinary trips would cast the Argonautic expedition into the shade.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
    A gentle face—the face of one long dead—
    Looks at me from the wall,”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)