The quest for longitude : (Record no. 2097)

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LC control number 96025845
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International Standard Book Number 0964432900
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International Standard Book Number 9780964432901
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System control number (OCoLC)34878901
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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
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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.
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Personal name Harrison, John,
Dates associated with a name 1693-1776
Source of heading or term fast
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Longitude
General subdivision Measurement
-- History
Form subdivision Congresses.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Horology
General subdivision History
Form subdivision Congresses.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Geography
General subdivision history
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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
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Longitude
General subdivision Measurement.
Source of heading or term fast
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Uncontrolled term Geschichte
-- 1500-1790
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Uncontrolled term United Kingdom
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Uncontrolled term Harrision longitude symposium
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Uncontrolled term Navigation
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Uncontrolled term Marine Chronometer
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Uncontrolled term History
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Genre/form data or focus term Kongreß
Geographic subdivision Cambridge (Mass.)
Chronological subdivision 1993.
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Genre/form data or focus term Conference papers and proceedings.
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Genre/form data or focus term History.
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Genre/form data or focus term Conference papers and proceedings.
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700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Andrewes, William J. H.,
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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.
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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.)
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