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Harrison Decoded

- Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock
Engelsk Paperback

Harrison Decoded

- Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock
Engelsk Paperback
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Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings 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. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one-hundred-times the stability of those made by his contemporaries. However, his final publication, which promised to describe the system, was a chaotic jumble of information, much of which had nothing to do with clockwork. One contemporary reviewer of Harrison''s book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison''s ''superannuated dotage.''The focus of this book centres on the making, adjusting, and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 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.
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Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock brings 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. Harrison predicted that his unique method of making pendulum clocks could provide as much as one-hundred-times the stability of those made by his contemporaries. However, his final publication, which promised to describe the system, was a chaotic jumble of information, much of which had nothing to do with clockwork. One contemporary reviewer of Harrison''s book could only suggest that the end result was a product of Harrison''s ''superannuated dotage.''The focus of this book centres on the making, adjusting, and testing of Clock B which was the subject of various trials at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 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.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9780198892670
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0198892675
Kategori: Samfundspåvirkning: Videnskab & Teknologi
Udg. Dato: 29 jun 2023
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 138mm
Højde: 215mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato: 29 jun 2023
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Kategori Samfundspåvirkning: Videnskab & Teknologi

ISBN-13 9780198892670

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 138mm

Højde 215mm

Udg. Dato 29 jun 2023

Oplagsdato 29 jun 2023

Forlag Oxford University Press

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