Document Details Traite d'horlogerie pour les montres et les pendules [Translation of Artificial Clockmaker]:
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- Title: Traite d'horlogerie pour les montres et les pendules [Translation of Artificial Clockmaker]
SubTitle: contenant le Calcul des Nombres propres a toutes sortes de Mouvements: la maniere de faire & de notter les Carillons, de changer & de corriger . . . - Author: by] A.M.[translated, William Derham
- Publisher: Gregoire Dupuis, Paris
Keywords: historic theory
Other Keywords: early, music, mathematics
Language: FRE
Notes: Translation of William Derham's book "Artificial Clock-maker"(1694), one of the first widely-read English books on horology. The book was translated into French and published by order of Germaine-Louis Chauvelin(1685-1762), Garde des Sceaux, 1727-1737, who was acting on the suggestion of the great mathematician Joseph Saurin(1659-1737).
Edition: 1731 (First French edition) -- Copyright: 1731
Kind: Book
Type: Timekeeper (general)
Geographic area: United Kingdom
Topic: TheoryGeneral
Organization: NA/other
Pages: 191 -- Height in cm: 16
Print Status: 2 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: DHG
BHM No: 10462 - Publisher: Gregoire Dupuis, Paris
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