My idea is that for the time this was built and used, there was little or no need for really accurate time keeping in most astronomy work. The high accuracy/precision needs really didn't arise until the beginning of what I'll call "modern astronomy", which I'll loosely define as the discovery of the first pulsar, or the first use of VLBI (whichever came first).
I took the "Astronomy 101" course during my freshman year at UMich in 1965. I just now realized that I was basically 2+ years too early. At the time I took the course, the text used was 10 years old, and it didn't seem to me that much was going on in the field. Little did I know what was soon to come ... Dana On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 6:12 AM Jean-Louis Rault <f6...@orange.fr> wrote: > Hi all > > A friend of mine offered me a secondary electric clock that was in use > at Observatoire Royal de Belgique, in Brussels, at the end of the 19th > century. > > The manufacturer is Peyer Favarger & Co, Neuchatel, Switzerland. > > I'm wondering why the largest hand is used for minutes, and the smaller > hands for hours and seconds > > Any idea ? > > Jean-Louis > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
