What is Clock Cabinet?
[[File:Pendule astronomique de Passemant (25).JPG|thumb|upright|Clock Cabinet]] The '''Clock Cabinet''' is a room at [[Versailles]]. It is one of the rooms in the king's private cabinets. An astronomical clock stands in the room. [[Louis XV]] took great interest in [[astronomy]]. The clock shows the time, the day of the week, the month, the year and the moon's quarter. In the crystal globe at the top, the planets can be seen moving around the sun according to [[Copernicus]]. The clock was designed by [[Claude-Siméon Passemant]], the King's [[engineer]]. It was made by the clock-maker [[Louis Dauthiau]]. The bronze casing was made by Jacques and Philippe II [[Caffiéri]]. The clock was used to determine the first official time system throughout the kingdom. The entire fixture measures over two meters tall. The Academy of Science examined and approved the clock in August 1749. The [[Duc de Chaulnes]] presented it to Louis XV on 7 September 1750. It was put in the clock cabinet in 1754. The room actually got its name because of the large astronomical clock dials in the [[wainscoting]]. These clocks displayed the sunrises and moonrises every day. The king's scientific interests led him to upgrade that daily experience by having the Passemant clock installed in the room. In 1692, the room was an Antechamber and part of Louis XIV's Art Cabinet. In 1738, it was remodeled into an oval-shaped drawing room. In 1760, it found its present form. The paneling is by Verberckt and Rousseau. The overdoors are copies of the Diana story originally painted by Boucher. The furniture in the room includes hunting tables ordered by Louis XV from Slodtz, Foliot, and Roumier. A Sèvres bisque equestrian statue depicting Frederic II stands in the room. Another equestrian statue in the room depicts Louis XV. It is a small copy by Vassé after Bouchardon's statue that stands in the Place de la Concorde.<ref>Constans, p. 18</ref> == Gallery == <gallery> File:Pendule astronomique de Passemant (19).JPG|Astronomical clock by Passemant File