Horological disquisitions concerning the nature of time, and the reasons why all days, from noon to noon, are not alike twenty four hours long

in which appears the impossibility of a clock"s being always kept exactly true to the sun : with tables of equation, and newer and better rules ... how thereby precisely to adjust royal pendulums ... : with a table of pendulums, shewing the beats that any length makes in an hour ...

by John Smith

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Published 1694 by Printed for Richard Cumberland ... in London .
Written in English

Subjects:

• Time, Equation of -- Early works to 1800,
• Horology -- Early works to 1800

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Edition Notes

Statement	by John Smith ... ; to which is added The best rules for the ordering and use both of the quick-silver and spirit weather-glasses, and Mr. S. Watson"s rules for adjusting a clock by the fixed stars
Series	Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 369:3
The Physical Object
Format	Microform
Pagination	[4], 92 p
Number of Pages	92
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL15027843M

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