...It hangs in an almost vertical position, the headdownwards, swinging like a pendulum if I touch the cover...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...In the time of George Daye (1543-1552) the pendulum moved againacross the face of the political and ecclesiastical clock...
Hubert C. Corlette 「Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901)」
...It was acrazy pendulum wind...
Various 「Astounding Stories, July, 1931」
...A throbbing, pendulum lurch—thatwas all...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930」
...On the bottom ofthis weight was a tiny projecting point which traced a line on atable-top sprinkled with sand, as the great pendulum swung slowly backand forth...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930」
...This would, however, be imperceptible so long astheir lengths were not measured by some accurate mechanicaltime-measurer such as a clepsydra, sandglass, pendulum, or spring clock...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Its motionresembles a pendulum, swinging from one side of the sun to the other...
William Tyler Olcott 「A Field Book of the Stars」
...Though the pendulum motion was first adopted by Galileo, he was unableto arrange its mechanism so that it should keep up a continuousmovement...
Thomas Orchard 「The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'」
...It is very remarkable that this period does not depend appreciably onthe length of the circular arc through which the pendulum swings...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
...The best clock which Tycho Brahé could get for his observatory wasinferior to one that may now be purchased for a few shillings; and thischange is owing to the discovery of the pendulum by Galileo...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...The pendulum served;and "pulsilogies," as they were called, were thus introduced to and usedby medical practitioners...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...This isthe period of the planetary oscillation: "a great pendulum of eternitywhich beats ages as our pendulums beat seconds...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...Itbehaves, in fact, very like the bob of a pendulum, which rises againstgravity at every quarter swing...
Oliver Lodge 「Pioneers of Science」
...This willbe shown by the time of the change of the pendulum from east towest when the sun reaches the zenith, and vice versa whenit crosses the nadir...
Henry Warren 「Recreations in Astronomy」
...At each oscillation this point cuts the sand, and the furrow getsgradually longer to the right hand of an observer placed at the centerof the pendulum...
Camille Flammarion Frances A. Welby 「Astronomy for Amateurs」
...He measuredthe change in length of the second’s pendulum in different latitudes dueto the changes in gravity foretold by Newton...
George Forbes 「History of Astronomy」
...If we draw the pendulum aside from its verticalposition and then release it, the weight will swing to and fro...
Robert Stawell Ball 「The Story of the Heavens」
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