Traité d'horlogerie pour les montres et les pendules, contenant le calcul des nombres propres à toutes sortes de mouvemens: la maniere de faire & de notter les carillons, de changer & de corriger le mouvement du pendule ... Traduit de l'Anglois de M. Derham.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: French Original language: English Publisher: Paris : G. Dupuis, 1731Edition: [First French edition]Description: [vi] 188 pages : illustrations ; 16 cmContent type:
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Includes unaccompanied melodies.

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Translation of William Derham's book "Artificial Clock-maker" (1694), one of the first widely-read English books on horology. The book was translated into French and published by order of Germaine-Louis Chauvelin(1685-1762), Garde des Sceaux, 1727-1737, who was acting on the suggestion of the great mathematician Joseph Saurin (1659-1737).

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