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With his marine clocks, John Harrison tested the waters of space-time. He succeeded, against all odds, in using the fourth--temporal--dimension to link points on the three-dimensional globe. He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
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longitude
longitude-act
marine-chronometer
marine-clock
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Dava Sobel |
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Having established itself securely on shipboard, the chronometer was soon taken for granted, like any other essential thing, and the whole question of its contentious history, along with the name of its original inventor, dropped from the consciousness of the seamen who used it every day.
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invention
jeremy-thacker
longitude
longitude-act
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Dava Sobel |
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"In the wake of the Longitude Act, the concept of "discovering the longitude" became a synonym for attempting the impossible."
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cartology
longitude
longitude-act
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Dava Sobel |
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23cab53
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"The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude."
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longitude
longitude-act
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Dava Sobel |