Harrison decoded : towards a perfect pendulum clock / edited by Rory McEvoy and Jonathan Betts

Published:: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators:: McEvoy, Rory and Betts, Jonathan

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Bringing together the output of a forty-year collaborative research project that unpicked and put into practice the fine details of John Harrison's extraordinary pendulum clock system, this text focuses on Clock B. The modern history of Clock B is accompanied by scientific analysis of the clock system, Clock B's performance, the methods of data-gathering alongside historical perspectives on Harrison's clockmaking, that of his contemporaries, and some evaluation of the possible influence of early 18th century scientific thought.

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9780191858574 (ebook)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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