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
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[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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    [ed HOOSIISIGNSIISHOSOPIOGHOOIINYS The Artificial CLOCK-MAKER. Se ek ee ee Corn Fw 'T. Of the Terms of Art, or Names by which the Parts of an Automaton are called. T is neceflary that I fhould fhew the | meaning of the ‘Terms which Clock- makers ufe, that Gentlemen, and others, unfkilful in the Art, may know how to exprefs themfelves properly, in fpeaking ; and alfo underftand what I {hall fay in the following Book. I fhall not trouble the Reader with a recital of every Name that doth occur, but only fuch as I fhall have occafion to ufe in the following Difcourfe, and fome few others that offer themfelves, upon a tranfient view of a Piece of Work. ~
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