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'A Description of an Instrument for making the hand or Index of an accurate Clock, which moves equally swift at all times....' by Robert Hooke

Reference number: RBO/3/52

Date: 21 March 1667

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The clock is also to 'move unequally upon the plain of any dyal in the same Proportions with the motion of the Suns shadow upon the Plain' or 'A Description of a very easy and simply instrument but Universal for the Description of all kinds of plain Dyals, whether Horizontal, Mural, Inclin'd Reclin'd or Declin'd; together with a Demonstration of the Principles and Reason of it'
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RBO/3/52
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21 March 1667
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4 pages
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Robert Hooke

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Robert Hooke, 'A Description of an Instrument for making the hand or Index of an accurate Clock, which moves equally swift at all times....' by Robert Hooke, 21 March 1667, RBO/3/52, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rbo_3_52/a-description-of-an-instrument-for-making-the-hand-or-index-of-an-accurate-clock-which-moves-equally-swift-at-all-times-by-robert-hooke, accessed on 04 December 2024

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