. Watch and clock escapements; . Fig. 149 158 Watch and Clock 150 in 1600, when Galileo discovered the law governing the oscillationof the pendulum, they did not suspect how important this discovery-was for the science of time measurement. Galileos experiments. Galileo, himself, in spite of his genius for investigation, was soengrossed in his researches that he could not seem to disengage the the simple pendulum from the com-?y/fA pound pendulums to which he de-voted his attention; besides, heattributed to the oscillation an ab-solute generality of isochronism,which they did not
. Watch and clock escapements; . Fig. 149 158 Watch and Clock 150 in 1600, when Galileo discovered the law governing the oscillationof the pendulum, they did not suspect how important this discovery-was for the science of time measurement. Galileos experiments. Galileo, himself, in spite of his genius for investigation, was soengrossed in his researches that he could not seem to disengage the the simple pendulum from the com-?y/fA pound pendulums to which he de-voted his attention; besides, heattributed to the oscillation an ab-solute generality of isochronism,which they did not possess ; nordid he know how to apply hisfamous discovery to the measure-ment of time. In fact, it was nottill after more than half a centuryhad elapsed, in 1657, to be exact,that the celebrated Dutch mathe-matician and astronomer, Huygens,published his memoirs in which he made known to the world thedegree of perfection which would accrue to clocks if the pendulumwere adopted to regulate their movement. An attempt was indeed made to snatch from Huygens andconfer upon G
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