2685 - Precision Pendulum Clocks

ROBERTS Derek

The Quest for Accurate Timekeeping.


This beautiful book relates the incredible story of the how leading clockmakers, primarily of England, struggled to achieve accurate timekeeping for over 300 years. A remarkably thorough yet concise text, by several of today's leading horologists, is accompanied by nearly 3000 photographs of clocks, which demonstrate each fascinating development.

 

224 Seiten

Verlag : 2003


Sprache : englisch

CHF 100.00