European Clocks in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
European Clocks in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
![Dutch Table Clock with Pendulum about 1656 [35] Source: Smithsonian... | Download Scientific Diagram Dutch Table Clock with Pendulum about 1656 [35] Source: Smithsonian... | Download Scientific Diagram](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313657946/figure/fig6/AS:666775754665997@1535983136566/Dutch-Table-Clock-with-Pendulum-about-1656-35-Source-Smithsonian-National-Air-and.png)
Dutch Table Clock with Pendulum about 1656 [35] Source: Smithsonian... | Download Scientific Diagram
![This clock can be directly linked to the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656 by the famous Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens. This clock can be directly linked to the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656 by the famous Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1f/c9/58/1fc9588784a85b7ff222f210c93ff6c9.jpg)
This clock can be directly linked to the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656 by the famous Dutch mathematician, physicist and astronomer Christiaan Huygens.
![TIL that with the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656, Christiaan Huygens increased the best accuracy of clocks from 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day. : r/todayilearned TIL that with the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656, Christiaan Huygens increased the best accuracy of clocks from 15 minutes deviation a day to around 15 seconds a day. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/iGOV4McPdtwD3MhI4_aIq3dUnm8jxIrrlowjga7Hb-8.jpg?auto=webp&s=0d62865ffc5490a3e2882a8f55f455e7801bcf67)