Looking For Longitude
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Looking For Longitude
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Author : Katy Barrett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Looking For Longitude written by Katy Barrett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Longitude categories.
Looking For Longitude
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Author : Katy Barrett
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-11-17
Looking For Longitude written by Katy Barrett and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-17 with History categories.
Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
Longitude
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Author : Dava Sobel
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-04-28
Longitude written by Dava Sobel and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-28 with History categories.
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a Foreword by Neil Armstrong.
Latitude Longitude And Direction
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Author : Julia J. Quinlan
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Release Date : 2012-01-15
Latitude Longitude And Direction written by Julia J. Quinlan and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Explains the concepts of latitude and longitude as well as the purpose of the compass rose on a map.
Longitude
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Author : Dava Sobel
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2005
Longitude written by Dava Sobel and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Astronomical clock categories.
Republished to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this bestselling book, now with a new introduction by Neil Armstrong, Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.
Lost At Sea The Search For Longitude
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language : en
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Lost At Sea The Search For Longitude written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the WGBH Educational Foundation present an online supplement to the "NOVA" television program "Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude," which was originally broadcast on October 6, 1998. The supplement stresses the importance of knowing the time when determining longitude. Educational activities and a teacher's guide are included.
Ships Clocks And Stars
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Author : Richard Dunn
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Ships Clocks And Stars written by Richard Dunn and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with History categories.
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.
The Theory And Practise Of Finding The Longitude At Sea Or Land To Which Are Added Various Methods Of Determining The Latitude Of A Place And Variation Of The Compass With New Tables
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Author : Andrew Mackay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1810
The Theory And Practise Of Finding The Longitude At Sea Or Land To Which Are Added Various Methods Of Determining The Latitude Of A Place And Variation Of The Compass With New Tables written by Andrew Mackay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1810 with categories.
Latitude And Longitude
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Author : Brian Williams
language : en
Publisher: Black Rabbit Books
Release Date : 2002
Latitude And Longitude written by Brian Williams and has been published by Black Rabbit Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A discussion of the history of mapmaking and its relationship to navigation and the measurement of time.
Prizes Patents And The Search For Longitude
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Author : Diane M. Burton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Prizes Patents And The Search For Longitude written by Diane M. Burton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
The 1714 Longitude Act created the Board of Longitude to administer a large monetary prize and progress payments for the precise determination of a ship's longitude. It is frequently cited to justify the use of prize-based incentives over patents. We use new data on marine chronometer inventors from 1714 to 1939 to show that the search for longitude reflected a complementarity between prize and patent-based incentives. The propensity to patent was high and the level of patents increased significantly as chronometers were refined. While the prize encouraged competitive entry, patents aided disclosure.