Talk:Seconds pendulum

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A bit more info would be nice, perhaps some history Krod 19:38, 22 January 2007 (UTC)krodReply

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Seconds pendulum's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "clarke":

• From History of the metre: Clarke, Alexander Ross; James, Henry (1873-01-01). "XIII. Results of the comparisons of the standards of length of England, Austria, Spain, United States, Cape of Good Hope, and of a second Russian standard, made at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. With a preface and notes on the Greek and Egyptian measures of length by Sir Henry James". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. 163: 445–469. doi:10.1098/rstl.1873.0014. ISSN 0261-0523.
• From Meridian arc: Clarke, Alexander Ross (1880). Geodesy. Oxford: Clarendon Press. OCLC 2484948. Freely available online at Archive.org and Forgotten Books (ISBN 9781440088650). In addition the book has been reprinted by Nabu Press (ISBN 978-1286804131), The first chapter covers the history of early surveys. {{cite book}}: External link in |postscript= (help); Invalid |ref=harv (help); templatestyles stripmarker in |postscript= at position 169 (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 17:54, 30 September 2018 (UTC)Reply

The phrase "a clock" appears. Actually, there is more than one and they do not agree with one another. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.169.192.50 (talk) 14:29, 7 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

I've cut out a large amount of material from this article that was only tangentially relevant to the seconds pendulum. It could do with further trimming, but I hope that's the bulk of the irrelevant material now gone. -- The Anome (talk) 00:16, 9 April 2020 (UTC)Reply

Agree, this has a huge amount of very tangentially related material. Needs a slimdown. As a matter of fact, most of this material is copied verbatim from Pendulum, where the seconds pendulum is also defined. The article could be merged into Pendulum--Chetvorno^TALK 06:49, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Material has been copied from this article in the Section Meridional definition of the Wikipedia article Metre on the Sixth of October 2023. Charles Inigo (talk) 08:27, 7 October 2023 (UTC)Reply

Is "pendulums" the correct plural? Not "pendula" ??? 2001:8003:E40F:9601:4840:B3B8:967C:D001 (talk) 10:07, 27 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

I wrote a lot of the Pendulum article. I think "pendulums" is much more common among horologists and that's what I use. --Chetvorno^TALK 06:51, 14 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

The majority of this section is off-topic. I will trim it down to stuff related to the article. Johnjbarton (talk) 00:26, 12 February 2025 (UTC)Reply