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the seventeenth century, led to the inven-
tion of the pendulum clock, perhaps the
most valuable astronomical instrument ever
produced.
These and other discoveries in dynam-
ics may seem very obvious now; but it is of-
ten the most every-day matters which have
been found to elude the inquiries of ordi-
nary minds, and it required a high order
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