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A new discovery for finding the longitude

The Description of the said Movement.

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This Movement may be either of the Form and Bigness of that in a Common Clock; or else of the Smallness of a Pocket Watch, as may be thought convenient in Practice. But the larger it is, the better the Divisions in the Horologe will appear. And as for the Numbers, they may be at pleasure: Only this must be observ’d, That the swiftest Index must make just One Revolution, whilst the slow one goes but One of the Hundred Divisions, (as is common in Minute Watches, wherein 60 Minutes goes to an Hour) but the rest of the Numbers may be at pleasure, as aforesaid. And if the Slowest moves round in 3, 4, or 5 Days; and the Movement requires to be wound up once in 26 or 27 Hours, it will be sufficient: For the more Vigor the Motion is calculated for, the less the Air will affect it.

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