Silvio A BEDINI – The Pulse of Time…
Galileo Galilei, the determination of longitude, and the pendulum clock.
£35.00
Card covers, 132 pages, 51 monochrome figs. Volume 3 of Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testy, text in English, Leo S Olschki, Florence, 1991.
Essential reading for anyone with an interest in this ever contentious subject, and Bedini’s ‘Epilogue’ includes the statement “The honour for producing the first practical pendulum-regulated clock belongs unquestionably to none other than Johann Philipp Treffler, mechanician to Grand Duke Ferdinand II de’Medici,” an opinion I, for one, do indeed question.
Silvio A Bedini was Curator of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the Museum of History and Technology, Washington.
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Card covers, 132 pages, 51 monochrome figs. Volume 3 of Biblioteca di Nuncius, Studi e Testy, text in English, Leo S Olschki, Florence, 1991.
Essential reading for anyone with an interest in this ever contentious subject, and Bedini’s ‘Epilogue’ includes the statement “The honour for producing the first practical pendulum-regulated clock belongs unquestionably to none other than Johann Philipp Treffler, mechanician to Grand Duke Ferdinand II de’Medici,” an opinion I, for one, do indeed question.
Silvio A Bedini was Curator of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at the Museum of History and Technology, Washington.
Good clean copy.