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Re: Lunar trouble, need help
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2008 Jul 07, 12:36 -0600
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2008 Jul 07, 12:36 -0600
On 7 Jul 2008 at 19:14, George Huxtable wrote: > Frank Reed wrote- > > "But pocket watches were widely available, at least to ships' officers, > even at the beginning of the EIGHTEENTH century. By the 19th century, > they > were so common that it wasn't even necessary to refer to them. Watches > were > ubiquitous." > > Did Frank intend those words to be taken literally? If he did, I wonder > if > he can provide some examples. The following quote from _The_Industrious_Revolution_ by Jan de Vries (CUP 2008) doesn't answer George's question, but it gives a context: "European watch production rose from the tens of thousands per year at the time of the pocket globe�s introduction [1697] to nearly 400,000 per year in the last quarter of the eighteenth century. ... Parisian inventories reveal that as early as 1700, 13 percent of servants and 5 percent of wage earners owned a watch." Ken Muldrew. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
