Download or read book Principes de la montre avec les planches relatives a la meme montre written by John Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principes de la Montre de M Harrison Avec Les Planches Relatives la M me Montre written by John Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Principes de la montre de Mr Harrison avec les planches relatives a la m me montre imprim s Londres en 1767 par ordre de Mrs les Commissaires des Longitudes written by John Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principes de la montre de Mr Harrison avec les planches relatives a la m me montre written by John Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First French and first bilingual ed. which includes the full text of the first English ed. of the same year. Description of Harrison's chronometer which provided the technical means of solving the centuries old navigational problem of establishing longitude at sea. This ed. was the work of the Jesuit mathematician Esprit Pezenas of the Ecole Royale d'Hydrographie, Director of the Observatoire Ste Croix.
Download or read book The Principles of Mr Harrison s Time keeper written by John Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1768 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of Harrison's chronometer which provided the technical means of solving the centuries old navigational problem of establishing longitude at sea.
Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.
Download or read book Looking for Longitude written by Katy Barrett and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
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