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[DERHAM, WILLIAM.] The Artificial Clock-Maker. A Treatise of Watch & Clock-Work. 2 folding engraved plates; 2 folding tables; folding leaf of letterpress music. [16], 119, [1]; [2], 28, [2] pages, including final ad leaf. 12mo, contemporary panelled calf with gilt back, extremities rubbed. London: James Knapton, 1700
Second edition of a work first published in 1696. "The Artificial Clock-Maker is a useful manual containing some of Hooke's ideas on clockwork, notably on the spiral spring balance, which Hooke claimed to have invented before Christiaan Huygens"--DSB IV, 40. Baillie, page 123; Wing D1100.
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