Design for a pendulum clock, 1673. Artist: Anon

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Design for a pendulum clock, 1673. Note the cycloidal pendulum with cheeks (). In 1657 Christiaan Huygens began work on developing Galileo's work on the pendulum. From Horologium Oscillatorium by Christiaan Huygens. (Paris, 1673).

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