[time-nuts] The Original Time Nut

Thomas A. Frank ka2cdk at cox.net
Fri Feb 22 20:03:16 EST 2008


A more in depth book on Harrison and the longitude problem is:

"The Quest for Longitude", Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium
Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts
November 4-6 1993
edited by William J. H. Andrewes
Harvard University, 1996

Sobel attended the above symposium, which is where most of the info  
came from.

Tom Frank


On Feb 22, 2008, at 7:16 PM, BriMDavis at aol.com wrote:

> Jan wrote:
>>
>> Can anyone point to some good reading on John Harrison
>>
>  The Dava Sobel book mentioned elsewhere also seems to
> have been released in an illustrated edition including period
> documents and equipment photographs:
>
> "The Illustrated Longitude", Sobel & Andrewes,
> 1998 hardcover, 2003 paperback
>
> ( I don't own that edition, but shall add it to the wish list )
>
> Also, Chapter 14 of "The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design",
> Williams (ed), 1995, titled 'John Harrison's "Ticking Box" ',  
> summarizes
> his efforts towards the Longitude Prize.
>
> Brian
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