Reference library
Bibliography of horology
Bibliographic records only. We link to legitimate digital editions where they exist and never reproduce copyrighted texts.
| Title | Author | Publisher | Year | Subject | Language | Availability |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers | F. J. Britten | B. T. Batsford (London) | 1899 (first edition) | History; makers' lists | English | Early editions in public domain; digitised copies at Internet Archive |
| Watchmaking | George Daniels | Sotheby Publications | 1981 | Technical watchmaking | English | In print (Philip Wilson Publishers editions) |
| Longitude | Dava Sobel | Walker & Company | 1995 | Harrison and the longitude problem | English | In print |
| Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World | David S. Landes | Harvard University Press | 1983 | Economic and cultural history | English | In print (revised 2000) |
| Heavenly Clockwork: The Great Astronomical Clocks of Medieval China | Joseph Needham, Wang Ling, Derek J. de Solla Price | Cambridge University Press | 1960 | Chinese horology | English | Library holdings; reprinted 1986 |
| The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices | Ibn al-Razzaz al-Jazari, trans. Donald R. Hill | D. Reidel | 1974 (translation) | Islamic engineering | English (from Arabic) | Library holdings |
| Practical Watch Repairing | Donald de Carle | N.A.G. Press | 1946 | Repair and restoration | English | In print (later editions) |
| Horologium Oscillatorium | Christiaan Huygens | F. Muguet (Paris) | 1673 | Pendulum theory | Latin | Public domain; digitised facsimiles widely available |