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TIME AND CLOCKS.
[Frontispiece.
NUREMBERG CLOCK. CONVERTED FROM A VERGE ESCAPEMENT
TO A PENDULUM MOVEMENT.
TIME AND CLOCKS:
A DESCRIPTION OF ANCIENT
AND MODERN METHODS OF
MEASURING TIME.
BY
H. H. CUNYNGHAME M.A. C.B. M.I.E.E.
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS.
LONDON:
ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO. Ltd.
16 JAMES STREET HAYMARKET.
1906.
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS,LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
TIME AND CLOCKS.
INTRODUCTION.
When we read the works of Homer, or Virgil,or Plato, or turn to the later productions of Dante,of Shakespeare, of Milton, and the host of writersand poets
...