The artificial clock-maker. A treatise of watch and clock-work, shewing to the meanest capacities the art of calculating numbers to all sorts of movements; the Way to Alter Clock-Work; to Make chimes, and Set them to Musical Notes; and to Calculate and Correct the Motion of pendulums. Also numbers for divers movements: with the antient and modern history of clock-work; and many instruments, tables, and other matters, never before published in any other Book. The third edition, with large emendations and additions. By W. D. F.R.S

  • Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735.
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1714
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London : printed for James Knapton, at the Crown in St Paul's Church-Yard, 1714.

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[16],140p.,plates : music ; 120.

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ESTC T61546
Kress, 2904

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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

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