easuring short periods oftime just as musicians now use themetronome to get regular beats. Gal-ileo is credited with noticing its regularbeats, but did not apply it to clocks,although his son made a partially suc-cessful attempt. The first mathemati-cal investigation of the pendulum wasmade by… … the better is the time-keeping, butnature does not permit us to carry any-thing to the extreme; so the difficulty TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 41 of finding a tower high enough andstead} enough, the cumbersomeness ofweight, the elasticity of the rod, andmany other difficulties render verylong and…
Time · Clocks and watches
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