item: #1 of 4
          id: A35722
      author: Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735.
       title: The artificial clock-maker a treatise of watch, and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned : also, the history of clock-work, both ancient and modern, with other useful matters, never before published / by W.D.
        date: 1696
       words: 28120
      flesch: 81
     summary: However upon the account of the innocence of my end in publishing this Book , and that it was written only as the ha●●less ( I may add also the vertuous ) sport of leisure hours ; I think my self excusable to God and the World , for the expence of so much time , in a subject different from my Profession . What Mr. Oughtred had wrapt up in ●his Algebraick obscure Characters , was afterwards put into plainer Language ▪ by that excellent Mathematician Sir Jon. Moor , with some additions of his own ; which you have in his Math. Compend .
    keywords: beats; clock; dial; fusy; hour; number; pendulum; piece; pinion; pins; quotient; report; round; rule; time; turns; viz; watch; way; wheel; work; ● ●
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        item: #2 of 4
          id: A35726
      author: Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735.
       title: A supplement to the treatise of watch & clock-work called The artificial clock-maker ... by W.D., M.A.
        date: 1700
       words: 10122
      flesch: 80
     summary: 2006-09 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2006-10 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2007-04 Robyn Anspach Sampled and proofread 2007-04 Robyn Anspach Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A SUPPLEMENT TO THE TREATISE OF Watch & Clock-work , CALLED The Artificial Clock-Maker . 7. This instrument is prepared with little cost or trouble ; it may be carried from place to place ; or imitated where-ever there is occasion to correct either Sun Dial or Watch.
    keywords: m s; meridian; satellite; time; watch
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        item: #3 of 4
          id: A60474
      author: Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680.
       title: Of the unequality of natural time, with its reason and cavses. together with a table of the true æquation of natvral dayes : drawn up chiefly for the use of the gentry, in order to their more true adjusting, and right managing of pendulum clocks, and watches / by John Smith ...
        date: 1686
       words: 7742
      flesch: 43
     summary: All which Irregularities , or difference in Right Ascension , proceed from two principal Causes : 1. From the different Positions : And , 2. From the different Centres of those Orbs in which , and according to which the Sun and Earth do move ; from whence arises a natural necessity , that between two such regular and equal Motions , whose Position is thus oblique , those appearing differences should still arise ; for though both Sun and Earth , the one in his annual the other in it's diurnal Revolutions , be rationally supposed to be regular and equal in their own Motions ; yet in regard of the different Positions of their Spheres , the Right Ascensions that are made by them cannot be equal ; it being impossible that the Sun , when near Aries and Libra , where he moves cross the Equinoctial , should then in any particular number of days make so great an alteration in Right Ascension , as he must do near the two Tropicks , where both Equinoctial and Ecliptick run paralel one to the other ; and accordingly by the best Tables of Right Ascension , 't is found that the Right Ascensions of 10 daies motion of the Sun near the Tropick of Capricorn , shall arise to above 11 degrees 30 minutes , whereas that of the same number of daies near the Equinoctial Point of Aries shall scarcely amount to 9 degrees . Since therefore there is no tolerable exactness in thus adjusting Clocks to the Sun it self , because being thus adjusted at times when daies are either shortest or longest , their gaining or losing will be the more extream in the contrary parts of the year : for Example ; Clocks adjusted to the Sun in March shall upon most daies in December gain almost 50 Seconds , which in the Months time shall amount to near half an hour ; and on the contrary , if adjusted to go true with the Sun in December , it shall in March lose the same time , and so for any other , according as daies do differ in length .
    keywords: clock; day; mean; minutes; right; seconds; sun; time
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        item: #4 of 4
          id: B06166
      author: Tompion, Thomas, 1639-1713.
       title: A table of the equation of days, shewing how much a good pendulum watch ought to be faster or slower than a true sun-dial, every day of the year.
        date: 1683
       words: 1813
      flesch: 75
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    keywords: sec; tcp; watch
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