Article ID: CBB000012061

How the chronometer went to sea (1976)

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Description Early use of chronometers in ships in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.


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Authors & Contributors
Betts, Jonathan
Dick, Steven J.
Bartky, Ian R.
Knox-Johnston, Robin
Wood, Christopher S.
Sabrier, Jean-Claude
Journals
Antiquarian Horology and the Proceedings of the Antiquarian Horological Society
Mariner's Mirror
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Publishers
Terre et Mer
Institut L'Homme et le Temps
Concepts
Time measuring instruments
Navigation
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Longitude and latitude
Clocks and Watches
Instruments, astronomical
People
Harrison, John
Le Roy, Pierre
Lalande, Joseph Jérôme le Français de
Vancouver, George
Thacker, Jeremy
Ptolemy
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Renaissance
Medieval
Ancient
17th century
Places
Greece
Europe
British Isles
Institutions
Parkinson and Frodsham (firm)
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