The Pendulum
Horologium Oscillatorium — Title Leaf
The founding document of precision time, 1673.
- Work
- Horologium Oscillatorium, sive De motu pendulorum
- Maker
- Christiaan Huygens
- Date
- 1673
- Held by
- BEIC digital library, via Wikimedia Commons
- License
- Public domain
- Master
- 1055×1528px
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and explore.
Size
Sizes are capped to what this piece’s real source scan honestly supports — we never enlarge past the engraving.
$29.00
The story
"The pendulum clock, or geometrical demonstrations concerning the motion of pendula as applied to clocks" — the title leaf of one of the great physics books of the seventeenth century, printed in Paris in 1673. Huygens dedicated it to Louis XIV; in it he derived the cycloidal pendulum, the theory of evolutes, and the formula every physics student still learns for the period of a swing. For a study wall it is the quietest kind of trophy: the printed birth certificate of measured time.
See it on your wall
The mechanism, made for a room
Horologium Oscillatorium — Title Leaf printed large and framed, hung in rooms like yours. Every edition ships ready to become the piece the room is built around.
About this reproduction
- A faithful reproduction of an open-access work held by BEIC digital library, via Wikimedia Commons, served under the institution’s stated license (Public domain) — source linked below.
- Printed to order on 200gsm EMA matte art paper or 400gsm canvas; framed pieces sit behind acrylic.
- The artwork is never cropped and never enlarged past its scan — sizes stop where the engraving stops holding.
- Ships in 5–10 business days, rolled in a heavy-wall tube (framed pieces ship flat-packed).
- If it arrives less than perfect, we reprint or refund — your choice.
Source: BEIC digital library, via Wikimedia Commons — the scan this reproduction is printed from, and the page documenting its public-domain / open-access status. We are unaffiliated with any watch manufacturer, past or present.
