The American watchmaker and jeweler; an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmith .. . 1,when he returned to Holland. In the year 1656, he first conceived theidea of applying a pendulum to a clock, and at once set to work at histask. On the i6th of June, 1657, he presented to the States of Hollandhis first pendulum clock. In 1658 Adrian Ulaag, of the Hague, pub-lished for him in Dutch, a short description of this new clock. In 1673, Huyghens. 198 finding that Vincent Galileo and others claimed the merit of the adaptationhe authorized F. Muguet, of Paris to publish for him
The American watchmaker and jeweler; an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmith .. . 1,when he returned to Holland. In the year 1656, he first conceived theidea of applying a pendulum to a clock, and at once set to work at histask. On the i6th of June, 1657, he presented to the States of Hollandhis first pendulum clock. In 1658 Adrian Ulaag, of the Hague, pub-lished for him in Dutch, a short description of this new clock. In 1673, Huyghens. 198 finding that Vincent Galileo and others claimed the merit of the adaptationhe authorized F. Muguet, of Paris to publish for him a valuable workentitled * Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum adHorologia aptato, wherein he gave the construction of his clocks, withdrawings, and the theory (useless in practice), of the cjcloidal checksas a means of rectifying the variations in the length of the arcs of vibra-tion of the pendulum. Galileo claimed to have adapted a pendulum toa clock as early as 1649, but there appears to be no authority to be reliedon, to prove his having done so. Dr. Hooke was another of the claimants.
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