John Harrison's contrivance : [the scientific basis and design of his ultimate pendulum clock] / Stuart Harrison.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford, Suffolk, UK : Fionchra Press, [2010].Description: x, 309 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781844267736
  • 1844267733
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QA862.P4 H37 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000071023

Subtitle from cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Detailed description of the clock and its history . Clock was the last started by Harrision but not really completed,stayed in family. In the posession of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1836/37, which 'got it running". Restored by Gould in 1927. 1972-1980 at National Maritime Museum, since 1980 at Fleamstead House, Greenwich Observatory. Book contains dimensioned photographs and drawings allowing the construction of a replica, as well as largely unstructured tidbits of information relating to Harrisions work and this clock. Bibliography. Numerous illustrations.

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