Concept
Time - Early works to 1800
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John Buridan, Quaestiones super octo libros Physicorum Aristotelis (secundum ultimam lecturam) libri III-IV / edited by Michiel Streijger, Paul J.J.M. Bakker ; guide to the text by Edith D. Sylla.
Buridan, Jean, 1300-1358Date: [2016]- Books
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The gentleman's hour glass, or an introduction to chronology: being a plain and compendious analysis of time, and its divisions ; Comprehending the whole Science, after a new, and curious Method; containing a brief Account of the Flux of Time; the Value of Lives, and Explanation of Stiles, Epochs, Aera's, Periods, Revolutions, &c. For the use of schools and universities. By James Eyre Weeks.
Weeks, James Eyre.Date: MDCCL. [1750]- Books
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The frontispeice [sic] of a curiouse clock which will inform gentlemen & others in all the usefull things contain'd in almanack's for the year 1701 : beside other curiosityes for ever. / Invented by Iohn Carte watchmaker neur ye Fountain in ye Temple, London.
Carte, JohnDate: [1701]- Books
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An introduction to the only method for discovering longitude. Humbly presented to both Houses of Parliament, and to those Worthy Persons that are to judge of it. By Stephen Plank.
Plank, Stephen.Date: Printed in the Year 1714- Books
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A discourse concerning time, with application of the natural day, and lunar month, and solar year, as natural; And of such as are derived from them; As Artificial Parts of Time, for Measures in Civil and Common Use: for the better understanding of the Julian year and calendar. The First Column also in our Church-Calendar explained. With other incidental remarks. The second edition. By William Holder, D. D. late Canon Residentiary of St. Paul's, London; and Fellow of the Royal Society.
Holder, William, 1616-1698.Date: 1701