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Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments

2024/01/02 by Sibylle Gluch
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #Historical Geography and Cartography #History and Developments in Astronomy

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/00033790.2023.2282777

Abstract

In 2017 a clock from the collection of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden was dismantled. This clock had been made around 1767 by Johann Gottfried Köhler (1745–1800), who was then in ...

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