The quest for longitude : the proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993 /
The quest for longitude : the proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993 /
edited by William J.H. Andrewes.
- 437 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 29 cm
"The Longitude Symposium was organized under the auspices of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments in connection with the Fourteenth Annual Seminar of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors." World maps on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-421) and index.
Opening address at the Longitude Symposium / Jeremy R. Knowles -- La Salle : when ignorance was death / Alistair Cooke -- Finding the point at sea / David S. Landes -- Mathematics / Bruce Chandler -- Navigation / W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns -- Cartography / Norman J.W. Thrower -- History of science / Michael S. Mahoney -- The longitude problem : the navigator's story / Alan Stimson -- Longitude and the satellites of Jupiter / Albert Van Helden -- The longitude timekeepers of Christiaan Huygens / J.H. Leopold -- In the wake of the act, but mainly before / A.J. Turner -- Cranks and opportunists : "nutty" solutions to the longitude problem / Owen Gingerich -- The lunar-distance method of measuring longitude / Derek Howe -- 'John Harrison, clockmaker at Barrow; near Barton upon Humber; Lincolnshire' : the wooden clocks, 1713-1730 / Andrew L. King -- Even Newton could be wrong : the story of Harrison's first three sea clocks / William J.H. Andrewes -- The timekeeper that won the longitude prize / Anthony G. Randall -- The scandalous neglect of Harrison's regulator science / Martin Burgess -- Ferdinand Berthoud and Pierre Le Roy : judgment in the twentieth century of a quarrel dating from the eighteenth century / Catherine Cardinal -- Thomas Mudge and the longitude : a reason to excel / David Penny -- Arnold and Earnshaw : the practicable solution / Jonathan Betts -- Lecture introduction : James Arthur : pioneer collector and benefactor / Robert C. Cheney -- Watch-making in the twenty-first century : the renaissance of the mechanic / George Daniels.
The Quest for Longitude is a book for students and for teachers, for collectors and for scholars, and for the thousands of people who, having enjoyed Sobel's Longitude, desire a well-illustrated reference that describes in detail the many fascinating devices and the intriguing characters who, by solving the ancient problem of finding longitude at sea, changed the world forever. 250 illustrations, 120 in color.
0964432900 9780964432901
96025845
Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Congresses.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Congrès.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776
Longitude--Measurement--History--Congresses.
Horology--History--Congresses.
Geography--history
Horology.
Longitude--Measurement.
Geschichte 1500-1790 United Kingdom Harrision longitude symposium Navigation Marine Chronometer History
Kongreß--Cambridge (Mass.)--1993.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Biographies.
Conference papers and proceedings.
"The Longitude Symposium was organized under the auspices of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments in connection with the Fourteenth Annual Seminar of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors." World maps on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-421) and index.
Opening address at the Longitude Symposium / Jeremy R. Knowles -- La Salle : when ignorance was death / Alistair Cooke -- Finding the point at sea / David S. Landes -- Mathematics / Bruce Chandler -- Navigation / W.F.J. Mörzer Bruyns -- Cartography / Norman J.W. Thrower -- History of science / Michael S. Mahoney -- The longitude problem : the navigator's story / Alan Stimson -- Longitude and the satellites of Jupiter / Albert Van Helden -- The longitude timekeepers of Christiaan Huygens / J.H. Leopold -- In the wake of the act, but mainly before / A.J. Turner -- Cranks and opportunists : "nutty" solutions to the longitude problem / Owen Gingerich -- The lunar-distance method of measuring longitude / Derek Howe -- 'John Harrison, clockmaker at Barrow; near Barton upon Humber; Lincolnshire' : the wooden clocks, 1713-1730 / Andrew L. King -- Even Newton could be wrong : the story of Harrison's first three sea clocks / William J.H. Andrewes -- The timekeeper that won the longitude prize / Anthony G. Randall -- The scandalous neglect of Harrison's regulator science / Martin Burgess -- Ferdinand Berthoud and Pierre Le Roy : judgment in the twentieth century of a quarrel dating from the eighteenth century / Catherine Cardinal -- Thomas Mudge and the longitude : a reason to excel / David Penny -- Arnold and Earnshaw : the practicable solution / Jonathan Betts -- Lecture introduction : James Arthur : pioneer collector and benefactor / Robert C. Cheney -- Watch-making in the twenty-first century : the renaissance of the mechanic / George Daniels.
The Quest for Longitude is a book for students and for teachers, for collectors and for scholars, and for the thousands of people who, having enjoyed Sobel's Longitude, desire a well-illustrated reference that describes in detail the many fascinating devices and the intriguing characters who, by solving the ancient problem of finding longitude at sea, changed the world forever. 250 illustrations, 120 in color.
0964432900 9780964432901
96025845
Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Congresses.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776 --Congrès.
Harrison, John, 1693-1776
Longitude--Measurement--History--Congresses.
Horology--History--Congresses.
Geography--history
Horology.
Longitude--Measurement.
Geschichte 1500-1790 United Kingdom Harrision longitude symposium Navigation Marine Chronometer History
Kongreß--Cambridge (Mass.)--1993.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Biographies.
Conference papers and proceedings.