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.

  • William Derham
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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    For the Reafons laft mentioned, I have alfo left out of my Book, a Chapter of the Art of making and ufing many forts of Sodders, the way of colouring Metals, &c. ufeful in the PraGice of Clock-Work. This I had prepared for the fake of Mer- curial Gentlemen, but omitted printing it and fome other things, out of Charity ta poor Apprentices and other Workmen, whofe Purfes ] am unwilling my Volume fhould too much exceed. If I have at any time invaded the | Workman’s Province, it was not becaufe I pretended to teach him his ‘Trade; but either for Gentlemen’s Sakes, or when the Matter led me neceffarily to it. I have nothing more to add, but that I would have this little Treatife looked upon only as an Effay, which I hope will prompt fome more able Undertaker to perform the Tafk better, efpecially in the Hiftorical Part. For fince Watch- Work oweth fo much to our Age, and Country, ’tis pity that it fhould not be re- membered: efpecially when we cannot but lament the great Defect of Hutory, about the Beginning and Improvements of this ingenious and ufeful Art. sig 3 4 2