John Harrison, Copley medallist and the £20,000 longitude prize / by H. Quill ; [line drawings by David Penney].
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TextSeries: Monographs (Antiquarian Horological Society) ; no. 11.Publisher: [Ticehurst] ([New House, High St., Ticehurst, Wadhurst, Sussex TN5 7AL]) : Antiquarian Horological Society, [1976]Description: iv, 26 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cmContent type: - still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0901180130
- 9780901180131
- Harrison, John, 1693-1776
- Harrison, John, 1693-1776
- Clock and watch making
- Longitude
- Astronomical clocks
- Horlogerie
- Longitude
- Horloges astronomiques
- Astronomical clocks
- Clock and watch making
- Longitude
- Clocks for calculating longitude at sea Manufacture by Harrison, John, b.1693, 1726-1772
- Antiquarian Horological Society
- Quill, Humphrey
- Marine Chronometer
- Harrison longitude
- biography
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" ... originally published in "Notes and Records of the Royal Society" (Vol. 18, no. 2, December 1963[)] ... [and now published] in an amended form ..."--Preface.
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AHS Monograph No. 11, an hommage to John Harrison and this marine timekeepers
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