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A problem of astronomical proportion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2016
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It is easy to design simple gearing enabling a clock or instrument to indicate hours, minutes and seconds, since the ratios are ‘man-made’ integers. If an instrument is required to indicate astronomical data we find that nature is not so considerate, and the gearing presents an interesting problem.
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