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The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993
By Longitude Symposium (1993 Harvard University)
"The Quest for Longitude" was published by Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University in November 1, 1996 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, it has 437 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The Quest for Longitude” Metadata:
- Title: The Quest for Longitude
- Author: ➤ Longitude Symposium (1993 Harvard University)
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 437
- Publisher: ➤ Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
- Publish Date: November 1, 1996
- Publish Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
“The Quest for Longitude” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Longitude - Congresses - Horology - Measurement - History - Long Now Manual for Civilization
- People: John Harrison (1693-1776)
Edition Specifications:
- Format: Hardcover
- Weight: 5.1 pounds
- Dimensions: 11.5 x 9 x 1.5 inches
- Pagination: 437 p. :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL987709M - OL3280326W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 34878901
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 96025845
- ISBN-13: 9780964432901
- ISBN-10: 0964432900
- All ISBNs: 0964432900 - 9780964432901
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"The Quest for Longitude" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Contents
- 2- Introduction
- 3- Opening Address at the Longitude Symposium
- 4- La Salle: When Ignorance Was Death
- 5- Finding the Point at Sea
- 6- LONGITUDE IN THE CONTEXT OF:
- 7- Mathematics
- 8- Navigation
- 9- Cartography
- 10- History of Science
- 11- EARLY ATTEMPTS TO FIND LONGITUDE
- 12- The Longitude Problem: The Navigator's Story
- 13- Longitude and the Satellites of Jupiter
- 14- The Longitude Timekeepers of Christiaan Huygens
- 15- In the Wake of the Act, But Mainly Before
- 16- Cranks and Opportunists: "Nutty" Solutions to the Longitude Problem
- 17- The Lunar-Distance Method of Measuring Longitude
- 18- JOHN HARRISON
- 19- John Harrison, Clockmaker at Barrow; Near Barton Upon Humbar; Lincolnshire':The Wooden Clocks, 1713-1730
- 20- Even Newton Could be Wrong: The Story of Harrison's First Three Sea Clocks
- 21- The Timekeeper that Won the Longitude Prize
- 22- The Scandalous Neglect of Harrison's Regulator Science
- 23- PREFECTING THE MARINE TIMEKEEPER
- 24- Ferdinand Berthoud and Pierre Le Roy: Judgement in the Twentieth Century of a Quarrel Dating from the Eighteenth Century
- 25- Thomas Mudge and the Longitude: A Reason to Excel
- 26- Arnold and Earnshaw: The Practicable Solution
- 27- THE JAMES ARTHUR LECTURE
- 28- Lecture introduction: James Arthur: Pioneer Collector and Benefactor
- 29- Watchmaking in the Twenty-First Century: The Renaissance of the Mechanic
- 30- APPENDICES
- 31- Appendix A
- 32- Acknowledgements
- 33- Subscribers to this volume
- 34- Contributors of material and information
- 35- Appendix B
- 36- The Longitude Symposium
- 37- Background to the conference
- 38- Conference information
- 39- Special exhibitions
- 40- Appendix C
- 41- Translations of the Earliest Documents Describing the Principle Methods Used to Find Longitude at Sea
- 42- Appendix D
- 43- Finding Local Time at Sea, and the Instruments Employed
- 44- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- 45- INDEX
"The Quest for Longitude" Description:
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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.
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