Longitude Movie

[Peter Fellows-McCully]

...surfacing from the lurking position...
Last friday, I drove a colleague home from work. He left a book in my car.
Sunday, I read it. Nothing usual, but it was the (rather slight) rocket
of Dava Sobel's "Longitude" exploding some days before the noise of these 
messages appearing...
Spooky,

Peter Fellows-McCully.
(Am I the only P-Lister in Ireland?)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org]On
> Behalf Of Richard Romeo
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 1999 5:58 PM
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Longitude Movie
> 
> 
> LONDON (Reuters) - Film star Jeremy Irons is to play the man 
> who solved the 
> problem of measuring longitude in a six million pound ($9.7 
> million) drama 
> to mark the millennium, Channel 4 said Monday.
> 
> Longitude -- the distance of any place on the world's surface 
> east or west 
> of Greenwich -- was virtually impossible to measure
> until 18-century English clockmaker John Harrison rose to the 
> challenge and 
> invented the world's first almost frictionless clock.
> 
> English actor Irons -- famous for films such as the ``French 
> Lieutenant's 
> Woman'' and a recent remake of ``Lolita'' -- stars in the
> TV version of the book ``Longitude'' by Dava Sobel.
> 
> It tells how Harrison responded after the British government 
> grew desperate 
> to stop sailors' deaths caused by poor navigation.
> 
> At the time the government offered a 20,000 pounds reward to 
> anyone who 
> could solve the longitude problem. One less successful
> competitor believed longitude could be measured by listening 
> to the yelping 
> of injured dogs.
> 
> ($1-.6194 Pound)
> 
> 
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