The artificial clock-maker a treatise of watch, and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned : also, the history of clock-work, both ancient and modern, with other useful matters, never before published / by W.D.

Title

The artificial clock-maker a treatise of watch, and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned : also, the history of clock-work, both ancient and modern, with other useful matters, never before published / by W.D.

Author

Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735.

Publication

London :: Printed for James Knapton,

1696.

Rights/Permissions

To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.

Subject terms

Clock and watch making.

Link to this Item

https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35722.0001.001 content_copy

Cite this Item

"The artificial clock-maker a treatise of watch, and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned : also, the history of clock-work, both ancient and modern, with other useful matters, never before published / by W.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35722.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 25, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• The Preface.
• THE CONTENTS.
• CHAP. I. Of the Terms of Art, or Names by which the parts of an Automa∣ton are called.
• CHAP. II. The Art of Calculation.
  • SECT. I. General preliminary Rules and Directions for Calculation.
  • SECT. II. The way to Calculate, or contrive the Num∣bers of a piece of Watch work.
  • SECT. III. To Calculate the Striking part of a Clock.
  • SECT. 4. Of Quarters and Chimes.
  • SECT. 5. To Calculate any of the Celestial Motions.
• CHAP. III. To alter Clock-work, or convert one Movement into another.
• CHAP. IV. To size the Wheels and Pinions, or proportion them to each other, both Arithmetically and Mechani∣cally.
• CHAP. V. Of Pendulums.
• CHAP. VI. The Antiquity, and general History of Watch, or Clock-work.
• CHAP. VII. Of the Invention of Pendulum Watches.
• CHAP. VIII. Of the Invention of those Pocket-Watches, commonly called Pendu∣lum Watches.
• CHAP. IX. The Invention of Repeating Clocks.
• CHAP. X.
  • Numbers for several sorts of Move∣ments.
  • Automata shewing the Motion of the Celestial Bodies.
  • Numbers for Pocket▪Watches.
• CHAP. XI
  • Tables of Time relating to Watch-work.
  • Explanation of the Table.
  • Remarks upon the Table.
• Addenda.