Time troubles: clocks and practices of precision in early eighteenth-century observatories

Annals of Science 81 (1):160-188 (2024)
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1. In June 1737, Jean Jacques Dortous de Mairan (1678–1771) informed Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688–1768) about the dispatch from Paris of six pendulum clocks and one seconds counter designed for the...

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10.1080/00033790.2023.2282773

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