Harrison decoded : towards a perfect pendulum clock /

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Imprint:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Description:1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Oxford scholarship online
Oxford scholarship online.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14130407
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Other authors / contributors:McEvoy, Rory, editor.
Betts, Jonathan, editor.
ISBN:9780191858574 (ebook) : No price
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 22, 2020).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version : 9780198816812