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'Galileo's Pendulum' recounts the history of the newly evolving timepieces - from marine chronometers to atomic clocks - based on the pendulum as well as other mechanisms employing the same physical principles, and explains the Newtonian science underlying their function.Newton, Roger G. is the author of 'Galileo's Pendulum From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter' with ISBN 9780674013315 and ISBN 067401331X.
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