Galileo's pendulum :

By: Newton, Roger GMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2005Description: 176 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN: 9780674018488 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Time measurements | Pendulum | ScienceDDC classification: 529.7 LOC classification: QB209 | .N48 2005Summary: 'Galileo's Pendulum' recounts the history of the newly evolving timepieces - from marine chronometers to atomic clocks - based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function.
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Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Galileo's Pendulum' recounts the history of the newly evolving timepieces - from marine chronometers to atomic clocks - based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function.