Book/Printed Material Time and its measurement,
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Image 1 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 5 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 6 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 7 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT BY JAMES ARTHUR REPRINTED FROM POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE Copyright, 190!t, bv H. H. Windsor CHICAGO, 1909- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 9 of Time and its measurement, CONTENTS CHAPTER I HISTORIC OUTLINE Time as an abstraction. Ancient divisions of day and night. Night watches of the Old Testament. Quarter days and hours of the New Testament. Shadow, or sun...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 11 of Time and its measurement, ILLUSTRATIONS Page ortrait of James Arthur 8 iterpretation of Chinese and Japanese Methods of Time Keeping 15 ortable Bronze Sundial from the Ruins of Herculaneum 16 oon-Mark Sundials 17 odern Horizontal Sundial...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 12 of Time and its measurement, James Arthur Mr. Arthur is an enthusiastic sciciilist, a successful inventor and extensive traveler, who has for years liecii iiiakiiifr a study of clocks, watches, and time-meas- uring devices. He is not...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 13 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 14 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 15 of Time and its measurement, CHAPTER I HISTORIC OUTLINE Time as an abstraction. Ancient divisions of day and night. Night watches of the Old Testament. Quarter days and hours of the New Testament. Shadow or sun time....- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 16 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 17 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT CHAPTER I Time, as a separate entity, has not yet been defined in language. Defini- tions will be found to be merely ex- planations of the sense in...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 18 of Time and its measurement, 14 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT o clock. A most remarkable feature of this 12-hour day, in the New Testa- ment, is that the writers generally speak of the third, sixth and ninth...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 19 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 15 Vid John Bull knows this and is try- }\g to fool the average Englishman. Now, as to the methods of measur- iig time, we must use circumstantial...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 20 of Time and its measurement, 16 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT observer knows it is noon, and when it shows the least observable lengthen- ing then it is just past noon. Now, it is a remarkable fact that...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 21 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 17 Clocks and watches, 1000 to 2000 D. 1 have pushed the gear wheel clocks id watches forward to 3000 A.D., as ley may last to that time,...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 22 of Time and its measurement, 18 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT Fig 4 12-Inch Modern Horizontal Sundial for Latitude 40°— 43 The reason that the table given here is convenient for setting- clocks to mean time is that...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 23 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 19 During the night and also in cloudy- feather the sundial was useless and 6 read that the priests of the temples nd monks of more modern times...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 24 of Time and its measurement, 20 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT and too slow during tl e second six hours, on account of the varying head of water. Now, the spigot of jar 2 could be set so...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 25 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 21 ,which could have been kept running Iwith tolerable accuracy by setting it daily to the dials on the outside. Prob- ably during- a few days of cloudy...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 26 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 27 of Time and its measurement, CHAPTER II JAPANESE CLOCKS Chinese and Japanese divisions of the day. Hours of vary- ing length.— Setting clocks to length of daylight.— Curved line dials. Numbering hours bacWards and strange reasons for...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 28 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 29 of Time and its measurement, CHAPTER II The ancient methods of dividing day and night in China and Japan become more hazy as we go backwards and the complications grow. The three circles in Fig. 1 (Chapter...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 30 of Time and its measurement, 26 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT can and easily see by comparing Figs. 13 13, which are the same dial set for Fig. 14 Japanese Striking Clock with Weight and Short Pendulum different...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 31 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 27 iad at the left-hand end. The curved lies formed of dots are the half-hours. liie right-hand edge of the dial has lie twelve horary characters which 11...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 32 of Time and its measurement, 28 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT is thrown into action and measures the short nis:ht hours. At sunrise this is swr* SET. 6. ^2^ 5- 4- -C?^^ 9 c 8 C 7 6....- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 33 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 29 xe better, thus Write the twelve tranches, or syllables, straight down- ards, continuously five times; close the right, write the ten stems six mes. Now you have...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 34 of Time and its measurement, 30 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT as much to money, weights, measures, and even to language itself. Finally, the difficulty consists in the facts that 3- TSU. I Ipp KIAH I ft CHou...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 35 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 31 our, on which the arrow hand now lands, is longer than the other night ours before it, and that it is divided ;ito three by the dotted...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 36 of Time and its measurement, 32 TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT nearly correct when we read of the middle watch and understand it to mean during the middle third of the night. Secondly, why do the Japanese use...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 37 of Time and its measurement, TIME AND ITS MEASUREMENT 33 matter how the hour plates are set r long- or short days. Similar pins oject inwards from movable plates 1 Figs. 12, 13, 14, 15, so they...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 38 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 39 of Time and its measurement, CHAPTER III MODERN CLOCKS DeVick s clock of 1 364. Original verge escapement. Anchor and dead beat escapements. Remontoir clock. The pendulum. Jeweling pallets. Antique clock with earliest application of pendulum. Turkish...- Contributor: Arthur, James
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Image 40 of Time and its measurement,- Contributor: Arthur, James
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