Astronomical Clock Besancon

The astronomical clock of Besancon is housed in Besancon Cathedral. Auguste-Lucien Verite fr Auguste-Lucien Verite of Beauvais designed and constructed Besancon's gift astronomical clock, among 1858 and 1863. It replaced an earlier and unsatisfactory clock made via Bernardin in the 1850s. It differs from the ones in Strasbourg, Lyon and Beauvais. The clock is supposed to explicit the theological idea that every 2nd of the day the Resurrection of Christ transforms the lifestyles of man and of the world.

The first astronomical clock hooked up in Besancon changed into made among about 1851 and 1857 via a clockmaker referred to as Bernardin. This is probably Constant Flavien Bernardin, born January 15, 1819, probable in Fougerolles, who likely got here from Fougerolles and lived in Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse. This Bernardin is not to be pressured with Br Bernardin Morin who during the equal period constructed the astronomical clock at Ploermel.

Bernardin had exhibited an astronomical clock in 1849 at the same time as he become living at Fougerolles. The clock he made for Besancon become exhibited in Paris in 1855, where Verite became also showing and he ought to simply have visible it. This clock become described within the 1958 article via Renc Baillaud.