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Author |
: Richard Dunn |
Publisher |
: Harper Collins |
Total Pages |
: 601 |
Release |
: 2014-11-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780062357175 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0062357174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ships, Clocks, and Stars by : Richard Dunn
A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind. Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible, illustrated volume reveals why longitude mattered to seafaring nations, illuminates the various solutions that were proposed and tested, and explores the invention that revolutionized human history and the man behind it, John Harrison. Here, too, are the voyages of Captain Cook that put these revolutionary navigational methods to the test. Filled with astronomers, inventors, politicians, seamen, and satirists, Ships, Clocks, and Stars explores the scientific, political, and commercial battles of the age, as well as the sailors, ships, and voyages that made it legend—from Matthew Flinders and George Vancouver to the voyages of the Bounty and the Beagle. Featuring more than 150 photographs specially commissioned from Britain’s National Maritime Museum, this evocative, detailed, and thoroughly fascinating history brings this age of exploration and enlightenment vividly to life.
Author |
: Richard Dunn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0007525869 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780007525867 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Finding Longitude by : Richard Dunn
Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition "Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude". 300 years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure from the increasing importance of international trade, the British government passed the 1714 Longitude Act. It was an attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems of the age: how to determine a ship's longitude (east-west position) at sea. With life-changing rewards on offer, the challenge captured the imaginations and talents of astronomers, skilled craftsmen, politicians, seamen and satirists. This beautifully illustrated book is a detailed account of these stories, and how the longitude problem was solved. Highlights of the book include: * Foreword by the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees. * Specially commissioned photographs of the National Maritime Museum's collection. * A new description of the collaborations and conflicts in a tale of technical creativity, scientific innovation and hard commercialism. From the same publisher as Dava Sobel's Longitude, Finding Longitude tells a new story of one of the great achievements of the Georgian age, and how it changed our understanding of the world.
Author |
: Richard Dunn |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 255 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 0007940521 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780007940523 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ships, Clocks, and Stars by : Richard Dunn
Author |
: Andrew Demeter |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 275 |
Release |
: 2013-12-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0972511105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780972511100 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Chelsea Clock Company by : Andrew Demeter
Second Edition Company History, Model Identification Guide, Serial Number Index
Author |
: Pat Hutchins |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 32 |
Release |
: 2014-01-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781481410724 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1481410725 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Clocks and More Clocks by : Pat Hutchins
When the hall clock reads twenty minutes past four, the attic clock reads twenty-three minutes past four, the kitchen clock reads twenty-five minutes past four, and the bedroom clock reads twenty-six minutes past four, what should Mr. Higgins do? He can't tell which of his clocks tells the right time. He is in for a real surprise when the Clockmaker shows him that they are all correct!
Author |
: Derek Roberts |
Publisher |
: Schiffer Book for Collectors |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0764308734 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780764308734 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mystery, Novelty, and Fantasy Clocks by : Derek Roberts
Over 300 clocks, for buildings or tabletops, which do far more than tell time, are presented with concise historical explanations, detailed drawings, and clear color photography. 700 years of clocks are studied, clocks that display magical acts, appear to require no power to drive them, or have no apparent connection between the movement and the hands. These mystery clocks are fascinating mechanisms.
Author |
: Scott Alan Johnston |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 166 |
Release |
: 2022-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780228009641 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0228009642 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Clocks Are Telling Lies by : Scott Alan Johnston
Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered. The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why we tell time the way we do, demonstrating that organizing a new global time system was no simple task. Standard time, envisioned by railway engineers such as Sandford Fleming, clashed with universal time, promoted by astronomers. When both sides met in 1884 at the International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, to debate the best way to organize time, disagreement abounded. If scientific and engineering experts could not agree, how would the public? Following some of the key players in the debate, Scott Johnston reveals how people dealt with the contradictions in global timekeeping in surprising ways – from zealots like Charles Piazzi Smyth, who campaigned for the Great Pyramid to serve as the prime meridian, to Maria Belville, who sold the time door to door in Victorian London, to Moraviantown and other Indigenous communities that used timekeeping to fight for autonomy. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, The Clocks Are Telling Lies offers a thought-provoking narrative that centres people and politics, rather than technology, in the vibrant story of global time telling.
Author |
: Richard Dunn |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 82 |
Release |
: 2016-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784421441 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784421448 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Navigational Instruments by : Richard Dunn
With over two-thirds of the globe covered by water, the ability to navigate safely and quickly across the oceans has been crucial throughout human history. As seafarers attempted longer and longer voyages from the sixteenth century onwards in search of profit and new lands, the tools of navigation became ever more sophisticated. The development of instruments over the last five hundred years has seen some revolutionary changes, spurred on by the threat of disaster at sea and the possibility of huge rewards from successful voyages. As this book shows, the solution of the infamous longitude problem, the extraordinary impact of satellite positioning and other advances in navigation have successfully brought together seafarers, artisans and scientists in search of better ways of getting from A to B and back again.
Author |
: Lauren Benton |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2020-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812297348 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812297342 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis A World at Sea by : Lauren Benton
The past twenty-five years have brought a dramatic expansion of scholarship in maritime history, including new research on piracy, long-distance trade, and seafaring cultures. Yet maritime history still inhabits an isolated corner of world history, according to editors Lauren Benton and Nathan Perl-Rosenthal. Benton and Perl-Rosenthal urge historians to place the relationship between maritime and terrestrial processes at the center of the field and to analyze the links between global maritime practices and major transformations in world history. A World at Sea consists of nine original essays that sharpen and expand our understanding of practices and processes across the land-sea divide and the way they influenced global change. The first section highlights the regulatory order of the seas as shaped by strategies of land-based polities and their agents and by conflicts at sea. The second section studies documentary practices that aggregated and conveyed information about sea voyages and encounters, and it traces the wide-ranging impact of the explosion of new information about the maritime world. Probing the political symbolism of the land-sea divide as a threshold of power, the last section features essays that examine the relationship between littoral geographies and sociolegal practices spanning land and sea. Maritime history, the contributors show, matters because the oceans were key sites of experimentation, innovation, and disruption that reflected and sparked wide-ranging global change. Contributors: Lauren Benton, Adam Clulow, Xing Hang, David Igler, Jeppe Mulich, Lisa Norling, Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Carla Rahn Phillips, Catherine Phipps, Matthew Raffety, Margaret Schotte.
Author |
: Marvin E. Whitney |
Publisher |
: Amer Watchmakers Inst |
Total Pages |
: 499 |
Release |
: 1984-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0918845084 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780918845085 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ship's Chronometer by : Marvin E. Whitney