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Description: | 'The Dyal', near Serjeants Inn in Fleet Street
London, England - 'I have two pendulum clocks makinge, with longe swinges, vibratinge seconds, and pointinge houres, minits and seconds, without striking; and also one little pendulum clock with a short pendulum, vibrating 4 times a second alsoe without strikinge; for discerninge small intervalls when there may be a pointe of a second in question' - letter from James Gregory to John Flamsteed, later the first Astronomer Royal at Greenwich, sent from London and dated 19 July 1673.
Knibb set up business in Oxford about 1662, having served as an apprentice with his cousin Samuel in Newport Pagnell. He moved to London about 1670 and was made free of the Clockmakers' Company. He retired from London in 1697 and continued to make a few clocks in Haslop, Buckinghamshire, until his death. | Publisher: | University of St Andrews | Rights holder: | 47795 | Subjects: | JOSEPH SPLIT SECONDS CLOCK TIME KNIBB GREGORY HOROLOGY JAMES CLOCK | Temporal: | 1673/1673 | Source: | University of St Andrews | Creator: | KNIBB, Joseph | Identifier: | PH208 | Language: | en-GB |
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