Buick, Tony
Orrery
Table of contents
1. Setting the Scene
Tony Buick
2. Honest George, Chronometers and the Mystery of the Disappearing Proto-Orreries
Tony Buick
3. Orrery—the Man and the Model
Tony Buick
4. A Closer Look at Gear Calculations, Time Corrections, Escapements and Orbital Resonance
Tony Buick
5. The Clockmaker’s London
Tony Buick
6. Modern and Orrery Times Compared
Tony Buick
Keywords: Physics, Astronomy, Observations and Techniques, Popular Science in Astronomy, History of Science
- Author(s)
- Buick, Tony
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2014
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 2014
- Series
- Astronomers' Universe
- Page amount
- 23 pages
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781461470434
