Horological disquisitions concerning the nature of time, and the reasons why all days, from noon to noon, are not alike twenty four hours long.
Subtitle: 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 ... With a table of pendulums, shewing the beats that any length makes in an hour ...
By: 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.
Publisher: Printed for Richard Cumberland ...
Published: 1694
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Clock and watch making; Barometers
Notes: First edition.

Signatures: A², B-F⁸, G⁶.

Title within double line border.

Bound in old sprinkled calf, rebacked.