INDEX.
- Acceleration, [73], [77]
- Almagest, [53]
- Anchor escapement, [120]
- Ancient science, [50]
- Aristotle’s ideas, [23], [52]
- Attwood’s machine, [83]
- Babylon, temple of, [24]
- Balance wheel, [159]
- Candles to measure time, [46]
- Chaldean day, [15]
- Chaucer, [56]
- Chronographs, [179]
- Chronometer, [165]
- Chronometer escapement, [166]
- Clock movement, [123]
- Copernicus, [56]
- Crossbow experiment, [183]
- Crown wheel, [115]
- Cycloid, the, [109]
- Dante’s Inferno, [54]
- Day, length of, [29]
- Dead beat escapement, [135]
- Density, [12]
- Driving weight, [127], [141]
- Earth, a sphere, [21]
- Earth’s motion, [57], [69]
- Earth not at rest, [67]
- Egg-boiler, [43]
- Electric clocks, [179]
- Epicycloidal wheels, [191]
- Escapements, anchor, [120]
- crown, [115]
- chronometer, [166]
- dead beat, [135]
- gravity, [169]
- Falling bodies, laws of, [62]
- Force, [76]
- Forces, revolution of, [89]
- Fusee, the, [117]
- Galileo’s “Dialogues,” [58]
- clock, [111]
- Grandfather’s clock, [119]
- Gravity, action of, [13], [65]
- Gravity escapement, [169]
- Greek day, [16]
- Harmonic motion, [97]
- Hooke’s law, [71]
- Isochronism of springs, [93]
- Lamps to measure time, [46]
- Latitude and longitude, [161]
- finding, [163]
- Mass, nature of, [10]
- Mercury clock, [45]
- Modern methods, [177], [197]
- Moments, [101]
- Moon’s appearance, [17]
- Motion, reliability of, [57]
- Musical notes, [95]
- North pole, days at, [33]
- Oscillations, law of, [151]
- Parabola, the, [87]
- Pendulum, the, [103], [145]
- suspension, [145]
- mercury, [147]
- gridiron, [149]
- theory of, [155]
- free, [133]
- Pisa, leaning tower of, [61]
- Planets, names of, [11]
- Pulse measurer, [99]
- Ratchet wheels, [129]
- Roman clocks, [40]
- Sand-glasses, [41]
- Space, nature of, [8]
- Speed of falling bodies, [79]
- Spring balance, [107]
- Stevinus’ theory, [81]
- Style of sun-dials, [35]
- Sun-dials, [27]
- to make, [48]
- Synchronous clocks, [175]
- Time, [13]
- Toothed wheels, [125], [137]
- Tuning fork, [94], [181]
- Velocities, composition of, [85]
- Water pressure, [37]
- Water clocks, [39]
- Watches, [156]
- Week days, names of, [24]
- Wheels, shape of teeth, [190]
- Wheel-cutting machines, [193]
- Winding drum, [131]
- Winter sun, [31]
- Zodiac, [18]
BRADBURY, AGNEW, & CO. LD., PRINTERS, LONDON AND TONBRIDGE.
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