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Re: Lunar trouble, need help
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2008 Jul 08, 16:42 -0600
From: Ken Muldrew
Date: 2008 Jul 08, 16:42 -0600
On 8 Jul 2008 at 19:57, George Huxtable wrote: > Responding to my question about watches used at sea at the start of the 18th > century, Ken Muldrew quoted from _The_Industrious_Revolution_ by Jan de > Vries (CUP 2008) > > "[deletia] ... Parisian inventories reveal > that as early as 1700, 13 percent of servants and 5 percent of wage earners > owned a watch." > > and I had asked for details about that "pocket globe" and for any quoted > references. The reference for the Parisian inventories is: Daniel Roche, Le Peuple de Paris. Essais sur la culture populaire au XVIIIe siecle (Paris: Aubier Montaigne, 1981), p. 226. I forgot to include it in my first reply...sorry about that. Ken Muldrew. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Navigation List archive: www.fer3.com/arc To post, email NavList@fer3.com To , email NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
