Time measurement in the dark. Two night clocks in the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas
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Since ancient times, humans have always been concerned with the measurement of time and have produced objects for this purpose. At the beginning, it depended directly on the weather until mechanical clocks appeared in the Middle Ages. The night clock type was born in the Italian peninsula in the 17th century in an attempt to solve two problems: the sound of its machinery and the ability to see the time at night. It was the Campani brothers who managed to introduce the necessary advances to achieve this; and these clocks quickly became popular among the European elite. The Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (Madrid) houses the only two examples in the Spanish state collections. One is dated in 1678 and produced in Rome by Joseph de Lellis, and the other is an anonymous late 17th century Viennese and Italian clock.
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