Book ID: CBB000073160

The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993 (1996)

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Description Contents: Cooke, Alistair: La Salle: When ignorance was death. Landes, David S.: Finding the point at sea. Chandler, Bruce: Mathematics. Mörzer Bruyns, W.F.J.: Navigation. Thrower, Norman J.W.: Cartography. Mahoney, Michael S.: History of science. Stimson, Alan: The longitude problem: The navigator's story. Van Helden, Albert: Longitude and the satellites of Jupiter. Leopold, J.H.: The longitude timekeepers of Christiaan Huygens. Turner, A.J.: In the wake of the act, but mainly before. Gingerich, Owen: Cranks and opportunists: “Nutty” solutions to the longitude problem. Howse, Derek: The lunar-distance method of measuring longitude. King, Andrew L.: “John Harrison, clockmaker at Barrow; near Barton upon Humber; Lincolnshire”: The wooden clocks, 1713-1730. Andrewes, William J.H.: Even Newton could be wrong: The story of Harrison's first three sea clocks. Randall, Anthony G.: The timekeeper that won the longitude prize. Burgess, Martin: The scandalous neglect of Harrison's regulator science. Cardinal, Catherine: Ferdinand Berthoud and Pierre Le Roy: Judgement in the 20th century of a quarrel dating from the 18th century. Penney, David: Thomas Mudge and the longitude: A reason to excel. Betts, Jonathan: Arnold and Earnshaw: The practicable solution. Cheney, Robert C.: James Arthur: Pioneer collector and benefactor. Daniels, George: Watchmaking in the 21st century: The renaissance of the mechanic.


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Review King-Hele, D. (1997) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". Nature (pp. 309-10). unapi

Review Bueren, H.G. van (1998) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology (pp. 216-18). unapi

Review Schaffer, S. (1999) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". Journal for the History of Astronomy (pp. 76-78). unapi

Review North, J.D. (1998) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 434-35). unapi

Review Taub, L. (1998) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 203-4). unapi

Review Lewis, A.C. (1999) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". Historia Mathematica (pp. 178-80). unapi

Review Bryden, D. (1999) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 120-21). unapi

Review Hide, R. (1996 (Oct. 11)) Review of "The quest for longitude: The proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993". TLS: Times Literary Supplement (p. 34). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Turner, Anthony J.
Thrower, Norman Joseph William
Sobel, Dava
Duren, Peter L.
Andrewes, William J. H.
Concepts
Science
Conference proceedings
Astronomy
Scientific apparatus and instruments
Libraries and archives
Time Periods
18th century
17th century
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