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Revision as of 16:26, 10 August 2006 by Biblbroks (talk | contribs) (wiki, format, ...)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Horology is the science and study and art of timekeeping devices. Clocks, watches, and chronometers are examples of instruments used to measure time.
Horology has a long history and there are many museums and several specialised libraries devoted to the subject. An example is the Royal Greenwich Observatory, which is also the source of the Prime Meridian (longitude 0° 0' 0"). One of the more comprehensive museums dedicated to horology is the Musée International d'Horlogerie in La chaux-de-Fonds (Switzerland). One of the better horological museums in Germany is the Deutsches Uhrenmuseum. One of the most comprehensive horological libraries open to the public is the National Watch and Clock Library and Research Center in Columbia PA.
People interested in horology are called horologists. That term is used both by people who deal professionally with timekeeping apparatus (watchmakers, clockmakers), as well as afficionados and scholars of horology. Horology and horologists have numerous organisations, both professional associations and more scholarly societies.
The leading scholarly horological organisations for non-professionals are:
- United Kingdom - Antiquarian Horological Society - AHS
- France - Association Française des Amateurs d'Horlogerie Ancienne - AFAHA
- Switzerland - Chronometrophilia
- Germany - Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Chronometrie - DGC
- Italy - HORA Associazione Italiana Cultori di Orologeria Antica
- United States of America - National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors - NAWCC
See also
- People
- Professions
- Institutions
External links
- A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells by Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, 1903, from project Gutenberg
- American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute
- BHI - The British Horological Institute
- Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH
- Musée d'horlogerie du Locle (Château des Monts)
- Musée International d'Horlogerie
- NAWCC: National Association of Watch & Clocks Collectors (USA)
- NAWCC - Horological Science Chapter
- NAWCC Internet Chapter 185
- Project Horologer watch database
- The Horology Source
- Timezone