[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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> > “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest
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> There is also a coffee table version with lots of good pictures.
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