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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, 1998 New copy with dust jacket. 437 pages, illustrated. This is a valuable, learned volume, being a record of the contributions to the Longitude Symposium held at Harvard University in 1993. The symposium was held to commemorate John Harrison's birth 300 years before, and is the best contribution to understanding Harrison and time keeping at sea since Quill's book, John Harrison, the Man who found Longitude, was published in 1966. As well as information about marine timekeepers by Harrison, Earnshaw, Mudge and Arnold the book covers Harrison's wooden and brass regulators. Recommended for all chronometer enthusiasts.. Second Edition. Cloth.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts: Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, Science Center, 1996. Hardcover. VG-/VG- inscription on 1/2 title page in ink, light wear to corners and edges of dust jacket.. Deep turquoise cloth, gilt letters on spine, dark turquoise & color illus. dust jacket, maps on flyleaves, 437 pp., color & BW illus. A collection of 22 essays gleaned from this conference, "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." (tp) "Traces the fascinating story of finding longitude at sea from about 1500, when voyages across the oceans began to increase significantly, to about 1790, when the marine chronometer had been developed as a reliable instrument by which longitude could be determined. Through hundreds of illustrations and detailed studies written by leading authorities in the field, this volume places the early history…
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