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Smith, John. 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 than any yet extant, how thereby precisely to adjust royal pendulums, and keep them afterwards, as near as possible to the apparent time. With a table of pendulums, shewing the beats that any length makes in an hour. A work very necessay [sic] for all that would understand the true way of rightly managing clocks and watches. By John Smith. C.M. 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

Creator
Smith, John, 1647 or 1648-1727?
Date
1694
Media Format
Printed text
Location
London England
Reference ID
S4106
Caption
London : Printed for Richard Cumberland at the Angel in S. Paul's Church-Yard, 1694
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