A Conversation for How Mechanical Clocks Work

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Recumbentman

I seethat the author Natalie is no longer around. I wanted to ask her to explain 'he conducted a series of experiments rolling balls down the groove of an inclined plane and concluded that, since this took a number of seconds, it would be impossible to measure seconds.'


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Recumbentman

Perhaps she meant 'it would be possible to'?


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