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Excerpt from Former Clock and Watchmakers and Their Work: Including an Account of the Development of Horological Instruments From the Earliest Mechanism, With Portraits of Masters of the Art, a Directory of Over Five Thousand Names, and Some Examples of Modern Construction
Ancient methods Of recording intervals by the motion of the earth with relation to the sun are almost beyond the scope of our title but before approaching the earliest mechanical time keepers, it will probably be convenient and useful to give some explanation of the various standards of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
