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BG.743.019
27 Dec 1743:22,31 (1140)
Just arrived from London, For the entertainment of the
curious and others, and is now to be seen in a large
commodious room at the house of Mr. Browne in Kingstreet,
Boston, the solar or camera obscura microscope, Invented
by the ingenious Mr. Liberkhun. . . [1 para. describing it]
Note, the microscope may be seen at gentlemen's houses,
giving half an hours notice, the sun permitting only from
ten in the morning to two in the afternoon in my room.
The unparalleled musical clock made by that great master
of machinery David Lockwood: This great curiosity performs
by springs only; it is a machine incomparable in its kind;
it excels all others in the beauty of its structure, is most
entertaining in its musick, and plays the choicest airs from
the most celebrated operas with the greatest nicety and
exactness: It performs with beautiful graces ingenuously
and variously intermix'd the French horn pieces perform'd
upon the organ, German and common flute, flageolet, &c. as
sonatas, concertos, marches, minuets, jiggs and Scot airs,
compos'd by Corel[li] Alberoni. Mr. Handel, and other great
and eminent masters of musick.
This beautiful curiosity has been shewn twice before the
King, in his royal palace at St. James's, where his Majesty
was pleas'd to make an observation on the excellence of its
beauty, and declar'd, he thought it the wonder of this age.
It is allow'd by all who have seen it to be more worthy to
adorn a King's Palace than of being expos'd for a common
sight.
N.B. This surprising piece of machinery has given such
general satisfaction to the lovers of art and ingenuity,
that the nobility are continually commanding it to their
seats to satisfy their curiosity, and is to be sold by the
owner Edmund Rising.
The inside of this machine may be view'd by gentlemen and
ladies, and is to be seen from eight in the morning till
eight at night, except Saturday, which will be no longer
than four in the afternoon.
The clock and the camera obscura, with the battle at
Dettingen, with several other curiosities for the evening
diversions, beginning a 6 o'clock. Price five shillings old
tenor, the lowest.
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