IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. After decades of experiments with the ...

Description: The length of a pendulum is shortened in mid swing by the string hitting a peg placed below the support. The bob swings to the height from which it was released. from Galileo Galilei ...

Newton (What Makes Nature Tick) explains the premise of his slim volume in a single sentence in the introduction:""This book is about the rhythm of time, how that rhythm was finally regulated by ...

Experiment with three pendulums that are 1-ft, 2.25-ft, and 9-ft long. Determine how many times the 2.25-ft and 9-ft pendulums swing during the time it takes the 1-ft pendulum to swing 30 times. Find ...

Galileo’s Pendulum by Roger Newton, Harvard University Press, £14.95/$22.95, ISBN 067401331X Reviewed by Marcus Chown THIS book, Galileo’s Pendulum, reminds me of a London cabbie “doing the ...

Biological timekeeping : the body's rhythms -- Calendar : different drummers -- Early clocks : home-made beats -- The pendulum clock : the beat of nature -- Successors : ubiquitous timekeeping -- ...