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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60473	Horological disquisitions concerning the nature of time, and the reasons why all days, from noon to noon, are not alike twenty four hours long in which appears the impossibility of a clock's being always kept exactly true to the sun : with tables of equation, and newer and better rules ... how thereby precisely to adjust royal pendulums ... : with a table of pendulums, shewing the beats that any length makes in an hour ... / by John Smith ... ; to which is added The best rules for the ordering and use both of the quick-silver and spirit weather-glasses, and Mr. S. Watson's rules for adjusting a clock by the fixed stars.	Smith, John, fl. 1673-1680.	1694 (1694)	Wing S4106; ESTC R17047	36,804	110

Horological Disquisitions Concerning the NATURE of TIME AND THE Reasons why all Days from Noon to Noon are not alike Twenty Four Hours long In which appears the Impossibility of a Clock's being always kept exactly true to the Sun With TABLES of EQUATION and Newer and Better RULES than any yet extant how thereby precisely to adjust ROYAL PENDULUMS and keep them afterwards as near as possible to the apparent Time With a TABLE of PENDULUMS shewing the BEATS that any Length makes in an Hour A Work very necessay for all that would understand the true way of rightly managing Clocks and Watches By JOHN SMITH C. M. To which is added The best Rules for the Ordering and Use both of the Quick-Silver and Spirit Weather-Glasses And Mr. S. Watson's Rules for adjusting a Clock by the Fixed Stars LONDON Printed for Richard Cumberland at the Angel in S. Paul ' s Church-Yard 1694. Licensed January 17. 1693 4. D. Poplar TO THE READER THE Design of these Papers is not to cover the Clock-Makers Imperfections as some have suggested but plainly to demonstrate thetrue Reason of those unavoidable Variations between the Time given by the Sun and that of a good and well-adjusted Clock and to give such Directions as may yet reduce them to a nearer Agreement in Time In doing of which I have endeavoured to express my self in such Words as I thought most proper to inform the Reader 's Understanding What is here exposed to publick View is not the Result of mere Speculation but of Skill and Practice for as it has been my Profession so it has been my Care and Concern also to understand exactly not only the Nature of a Clock but that also of its Motion and the Result of my Discoveries As to the latter you have very briefly laid down in the following Discourse and I assure you that I have not spoken any thing of the Truth of which I was not first well satisfied The Style indeed is purely Mechanick but this is no Argument against its usefulness since in Books Men ought not so much to heed who 't is that speaks as what is spoken He always writes best that from his own Knowledge and Experience can inform the World of something that 's advantagious to Human Life which was not known to Mankind in the Times before Farewel A Table of Equations Shewing the true Length of every Natural-Day or the Seconds of Time that they are either Longer or shorter than XXIV Hours By JOHN SMITH C. M.   Jan. Feb. Mar. April May June July Aug. Sept. Octo. Nov. Dec.   ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ ′ ″ 1   22 D 24   17   17   3   11   7   9   20   14   9   20 2   23   2   17   16   3   11   7   9   20   14   10   30 3   23   2   18   16   1   12   7   9   21   13   10   30 4   24   4   18   15 D 24   12   6   11   21   13   10   30 5   2●   4   18   15 D 24   12   6   12   21   13   11   30 6   2●   4   18   14   1   13   6   13   21   13   12   30 7   19   5   18   14   2   13   6   13   22   13   12   30 8   18   5   18   14   2   13   5   14   22   11   13   30 9   17   6   18   14   3   13   4   14   22   10   15   30 10   16   8   18   13   3   13   4   15   21   9   17   30 11   16   8   18   13   3   13   3   15   21   8   17   33 12   16   9   18   12   4   13   2   15   20   7   18   30 13   16   9   19   12   4   13   2   16   20   7   18   30 14   16   10   19   11   5   13   1   16   20   6   19   31 15   15   10   20   11   5   13 D 24   17   20   6   20   31 16   1●   11   20   10   6   12 D 24   17   20   5   21   31 17   13   12   20   10   6   12   1   17   20   4   22   31 18   12   13   20   10   6   11   2   18   20   3   23   30 19   11   13   20   10   6   11   3   18   19   3   23   30 20   11   13   19   10   7   11   4   19   19   2   24   30 21   10   14   19   9   8   11   4   19   19   1   24   30 22   9   14   19   7   8   11   4   19   19 D 24   24   30 23   8   15   19   7   9   10   4   19   19 D 24   25   30 24   ●   15   19   7   10   10   5   19   18   1   25   30 25   5   15   19   6   10   10   5   19   17   2   25   28 26   4   15   19   5   11   10   5   20   17   2   25   23 29   ●   16   19   5   11   10   5   20   16   3   26   23 28   ●   17   19   5   11   9   6   20   16   4   26   27 29   ●       18   4   11   9   7   20   16   6   27   27 30   1       17   4   11   8   8   20   15   7   28   25 31 D 24                       9           8       24 The Character D 24 shews what Days are truly 24 Hours long the Red Figures shew the Seconds of Time that those Days on which they are plac'd are longer than 24 Hours and the Black Ones