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Re: Timing Lunars with a Rock
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2005 Jul 20, 13:03 -0400
From: Herbert Prinz
Date: 2005 Jul 20, 13:03 -0400
Frank Reed wrote (in reply to a suggestion by Alexandre Eremenko) >"I suppose a sandglass has at least the same precision >as a crude pendulum discussed above." > >Much easier to make a pendulum from scratch! > > A sandglass may have the same precision, but it does not have the same resolution as a pendulum. It's no substitute. Herbert Prinz