MDDM Ch. 20 Summary & Notes

[Dave Monroe]

While I'm here, yes, indeed, do see ...

Sobel, Dava.  Longitude: The True Story of a Lone
   Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem
   of His Time.  New York: Walker & Company, 1995.

The handy, pocket-sized pbk. ed.'s from Penguin
(1996), and there's a dee-luxe coffeetable version as
well.  Audiotape, e-book, teevee special, even ...

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/

Which I belive is available (VHS, DVD) as well.  There
are more thorough texts on the subject, but this one's
a good, quick and entertaining read.  But for even
more instant gratification, see ...

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/museum/harrison/index.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/%7Ehistory/HistTopics/Longitude2.html

http://www.clockmakers.org/page24.html

http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/events/exhib/h5.html

http://www.nmm.ac.uk/services/press_archive_new/Press_new_harrison_clock.html

http://www.harrisonclocks.co.uk/

Watch out for that last one, took a while to load ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> 201.4 "Mr Harrison's watch": the subject of Dava
> Sobel's _Longitude_.

Okay, I could at least cover that one without
consulting the novel, so ...

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