Andrewes, William J. H. (Editor)
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 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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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