Talk:Chronometry

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Redirect elsewhere?

This article appears to have had almost as many edits as there are words in the text! If nobody can add some substantial material, can I suggest that the article be replaced by a redirect to the chronometer article. --Roly (talk) 07:50, 23 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This is not at all a synonym for chronometer, so I suggest this article stays in place.--Dbrukman (talk) 03:16, 5 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization of Chronometry strikes me as an affectation

Yes, it is linguistically downstream from Chronos as time personified, but I believe the regular Greek word for time was also chronos.

I'm going to change this, but if anyone knows a good reason why this isn't actually an affection, go ahead and change it back. — MaxEnt 23:13, 27 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with horology

See and comment at Talk:horology. — LlywelynII 12:06, 16 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have read the previous discussion about merging horology with chronometry and wanted to return to this again, particularly as there were very few people who weighed in on the original suggestion. There is an important distinction between horology, which is usually understood as being about the making of time keeping/time measuring devices particularly. It has more conotations of the craft of making clocks and watches, where as metrology (or chronometry) here is distinct as the study of measurement and in my understanding is more focused on definitions and techniques for precision time-keeping at present. Some of this can be seen in the recent A General History of Horology (eds Anthony Turner). The British Horological Institute also focus on the craft of clock and watch making specifically eg https://bhi.co.uk/ In this context, horologists does not refer to anyone interested in the subject, as suggested in the current entry, but those trained in the craft. Their website has no hits at all for chronometry, which is one point of evidence against that being the preferred current term. Kaelab3 (talk) 19:38, 27 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]