Horological Hints and Helps
Horological Hints and Helps

Author: Frederick William Britten

Publisher: Baron Pub.

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 9780902028647

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The complexities of mechanical watches and clocks are explained with over 150 drawings to clarify the text. The author gives invaluable practical advice on the difficulties that are often encountered when attempting repairs on old timepieces.

A General History of Horology
A General History of Horology

Author: Turner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-02-02

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 0198863918

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A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.