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001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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6310d08f63857 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20240909204236.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
960521s1996 mauab b 101 0beng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
96025845 |
019 ## - |
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775980305 |
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1008123830 |
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1008844451 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
0964432900 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780964432901 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)34878901 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Description conventions |
rda |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
BAKER |
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NLGGC |
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BTCTA |
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LVB |
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YAM |
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YDXCP |
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OCLCG |
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OCLCQ |
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SINLB |
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GEBAY |
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EUM |
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GBVCP |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCF |
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OCLCQ |
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UKMGB |
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DEBBG |
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OCL |
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EUW |
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OCLCQ |
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DHA |
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OCLCQ |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCQ |
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TYC |
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GILDS |
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OCLCO |
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CPS |
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OCLCO |
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NTG |
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OCLCA |
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OCLCQ |
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OCLCA |
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IL4J6 |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCA |
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OCLCO |
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JQF |
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NYHRS |
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
Holding library |
HRSA |
111 2# - MAIN ENTRY--MEETING NAME |
Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Longitude Symposium |
Date of meeting or treaty signing |
(1993 : |
Location of meeting |
Harvard University) |
Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96051719 |
9 (RLIN) |
6924 |
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The quest for longitude : |
Remainder of title |
the proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993 / |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
edited by William J.H. Andrewes. |
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
Cambridge, Mass. : |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[1996] |
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©1996 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
437 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; |
Dimensions |
29 cm |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
text |
Content type code |
txt |
Source |
rdacontent |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
still image |
Content type code |
sti |
Source |
rdacontent |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Content type term |
cartographic image |
Content type code |
cri |
Source |
rdacontent |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
Source |
rdamedia |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
Carrier type term |
volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
Source |
rdacarrier |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
"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." |
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
General note |
World maps on endpapers. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 406-421) and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
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. |
520 0# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
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. |
562 ## - COPY AND VERSION IDENTIFICATION NOTE |
Materials specified |
31560000047569 |
Copy identification |
367 |
590 ## - LOCAL NOTE (RLIN) |
Local note |
Proceedings of Longitude /John Harrision Symposium/Nawcc Seminar 1991, profusely illustrated |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Harrison, John, |
Dates associated with a name |
1693-1776 |
Form subdivision |
Congresses. |
600 16 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Harrison, John, |
Dates associated with a name |
1693-1776 |
Form subdivision |
Congrès. |
600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Harrison, John, |
Dates associated with a name |
1693-1776 |
Source of heading or term |
fast |
Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst00153680 |
9 (RLIN) |
4545 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Longitude |
General subdivision |
Measurement |
-- |
History |
Form subdivision |
Congresses. |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Horology |
General subdivision |
History |
Form subdivision |
Congresses. |
650 #2 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Geography |
General subdivision |
history |
Authority record control number or standard number |
(DNLM)D005843Q000266 |
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Horology. |
Source of heading or term |
fast |
Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst00960359 |
9 (RLIN) |
6387 |
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Longitude |
General subdivision |
Measurement. |
Source of heading or term |
fast |
Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst01002406 |
653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Geschichte |
-- |
1500-1790 |
653 #5 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
United Kingdom |
653 #3 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Harrision longitude symposium |
653 #2 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Navigation |
653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
Marine Chronometer |
653 #0 - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
Uncontrolled term |
History |
655 #4 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
Genre/form data or focus term |
Kongreß |
Geographic subdivision |
Cambridge (Mass.) |
Chronological subdivision |
1993. |
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
Genre/form data or focus term |
Conference papers and proceedings. |
Source of term |
fast |
Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst01423772 |
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
Genre/form data or focus term |
History. |
Source of term |
fast |
Authority record control number or standard number |
(OCoLC)fst01411628 |
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
Genre/form data or focus term |
Biographies. |
Source of term |
lcgft |
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
Genre/form data or focus term |
Conference papers and proceedings. |
Source of term |
lcgft |
700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Andrewes, William J. H., |
Dates associated with a name |
1950- |
Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96051709 |
9 (RLIN) |
5341 |
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Harvard University. |
Subordinate unit |
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments. |
Authority record control number or standard number |
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91089739 |
9 (RLIN) |
7543 |
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors. |
Subordinate unit |
Seminar |
Number of part/section/meeting |
(14th : |
Date of meeting or treaty signing |
1993 : |
Location of meeting |
Cambridge, Mass.) |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Books |
Suppress in OPAC |
No |
994 ## - |
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C0 |
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NYHRS |