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Promises of precision: questioning precision in ‘precision’ instruments
Annals of Science 81 (1-2):1-9 (2024)
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In 2017 a clock from the collection of the Mathematisch-Physikalischer Salon in Dresden was dismantled. This clock had been made around 1767 by Johann Gottfried Köhler (1745–1800), who was then in...Other Versions
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