[time-nuts] Longitude
William H. Fite
omniryx at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 23:29:51 UTC 2016
Wasn't Christian Huygens the first to devise a clock for the purpose of
determining longitude? Or was it Edmund Halley...but he didn't rely on
clocks. I think
On Tuesday, July 5, 2016, Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net> wrote:
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> rchrdm at earthlink.net <javascript:;> said:
> > “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest
> > Scientific Problem of His Time,” by Dava Sobel (Author).
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> There is also a coffee table version with lots of good pictures.
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