he reverse for slow. Dontforget that we are now consideringvariations of less than a second a week. The clock room has double doors, sothe outer one can be shut before theinner one is opened, to avoid air cur-rents. Visitors are not permitted tosee these clocks because the less thedoors are opened… … Fig. 32—Antique Clock, Entirely Hand-Made ders and are worthy of such a greatfavor. The best thing the young studentcould do at this point would be tograsp the remarkable fact that theclock is not an old machine, since itcovers only the comparatively shortperiod from 1364 to the present…
Time · Clocks and watches
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