From: Studies in the History and Method of Science, Volume ii. edited by Charles Singer (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1921). The paper in which they appear is "The Scientific Works of Galileo (1564-1642) [:] With Some Account of His Life and Trial [;] Being a Review of Favaro's Edizione nazionale delle Opera di Galileo (1890-1909)" by J. J. Fahre. This image appears in the text (not as a plate) on page 282.
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For more information on Galileo's escapement, see:
Wilding, John. How to Make Galileo's Escapement. Second Edition. Ashford, Kent, UK: Brant Wright Associates, Ltd., not later than 1981. Later published Hillgrove, Petworth, UK: Meridian Clocks, [no date]. ISBN: 0-903512-12-2.
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