I felt a rush of jitters, my arms swung apishly like pendulums and my legs seemed disconnected, lumbering stilts. |
He also worked on cycloidal pendulums, the laws of resistance in a fluid and differential geometry. |
Besides tarot reading there are also runes, pendulums, Numerology, palm reading, tealeaf reading, scrying, and dowsing. |
Around 1660, clocks with longer pendulums were introduced by English clockmakers. |
One contains constrained bodies that fall slowly, the other pendulums that repeat their motions again and again. |
His early timekeepers were controlled by pendulums but, in anything but a flat calm, their going was most erratic. |