Huygens's Clocks Revisited
- Kind
- Magazine Article
- Date
- 07/2002
- Publisher
- American Scientist
- Volume / pages
- July-August 2002
- Retrieved
- Jul 30, 2013
1 meme from this reference
Odd Sympathy
Laid up in bed during a brief illness and idly watching two clocks mounted in one case, Huygens noticed something strange: No matter how the pendulums started out, eventually they always ended up swinging in exactly opposite directions. Huygens wondered whether this odd sympathy might solve the longitude problem…