John Harrison, Copley medallist and the £20,000 longitude prize /
by H. Quill ; [line drawings by David Penney].
- iv, 26 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm.
- Monographs / Antiquarian Horological Society ; no. 11 .
- Monographs (Antiquarian Horological Society) ; no. 11. .
" ... originally published in "Notes and Records of the Royal Society" (Vol. 18, no. 2, December 1963[)] ... [and now published] in an amended form ..."--Preface.
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