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Salomon Coster

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Coster's earliest pendulum clocks were signed "Samuel Coster - Haghe met privilege", indicating that he had been authorized by the inventor (Huygens) to make such clocks. This clock design was heralded as a new beginning in the clockmaking industry, due to its level of timekeeping accuracy which was
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Christiaan Huygens invented the pendulum in December 1656 and Salomon Coster received the patent to create the clocks a year later.
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Hans van den Ende, et al.: "Huygens's Legacy, The Golden Age of the Pendulum Clock", Fromanteel Ltd., 2004,
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previously unheard of. The oldest extant pendulum clock, signed by Coster in 1657, is on display at the
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Hans van den Ende, "Huygens's Legacy, The Golden Age of the Pendulum Clock", Fromanteel Ltd., 2004
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Oppwindende Klokken - De Gouden Eeuw van het Slingeruhrwerk 12 September - 29 November 2004
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R. Memel en V. Kersing: Salomon Coster, de Haagse periode; het Tijdschrift 2014-4 en 2015-1
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Telling time - Devices for time measurement i museum Boerhaave - A Descriptive Catalogue
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Around the same time, John Fromanteel, the son of a London clockmaker named
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Huygens
the Hague
pendulum clock
Christiaan Huygens
Boerhaave Museum
Leiden
Netherlands
Ahasuerus
"Salomon Coster the clockmaker of Christiaan Huygens. Clock"


"European Clocks in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | Essay | The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History"
"Early pendulum clock by Salomon Coster, c.1657. | Science Museum Group Collection"
"Salomon Coster the clockmaker of Christiaan Huygens. Clock"
Paleis het Loo
Christiaan Huygens
cite book
help
ScienceMuseum.org.uk
Antique-horlogy.org
Formanteel.com
Categories
1620s births
1659 deaths
Dutch scientific instrument makers
Dutch clockmakers
Christiaan Huygens

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