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 ... and many instruments, tables and other matters never before published in any other book / By William Derham.

  • Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735
Date:
[1759]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: 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 ... and many instruments, tables and other matters never before published in any other book / By William Derham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cea PIED ebhbb eb beh bk bbbet bebe eae SP CONTENTS. HAP. I. Of the Terms of Art, page 1. The more general Terms, p.2. Names belonging to the Watch-Part, 4. Names of the Clock-Part, 6. The Portraiture, and Defcription of a Chock, 8. CHAP. I. Fhe Art of Calculation, 10. a igs Preliminary Rules, idzd. To find the Turns of a Wheel or Pinion, ibid. How to write down the Numbers of a Move- ment, 11. To find the Number of Turns of any one, or all the Wheels and Pinions, 12. To find the Beats of the Ballance either in alt the time of the Watch's going, or in any Turn of any Wheel, 14. Two Beats to every Tooth of the Crown-Wheel, 17, S EQ Fede? Po°* calculate, and - contrive the Numbers of Watch-Work, 17. Several ways of performing one and the fame Motion, 18. Of placing the Wheels, 19. Fo vary Numbers, ibid. How to work the Golden Rule, 20. An ufeful Rule to vary inconvenient Numbers, 22. Rules of perpe- tual ufe in proportioning the Parts of a Move- ment, 22, 23. Examples of contriving a piece of Watch-Work, 25. How to lengthen cafil