by Terry 14 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Yes, Jake!
Thanks.
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The typical, landlubbing pendulum clocks, of course, couldn't function properly on board a sea going vessel so John Harrison developed chronometers -- unfazed by the effects upon the ships of an ever unpredictable sea. This is how the problem of determining longitude was solved.
I'm trying to remember the title of a book I read years and years ago. I want to say Boorstein wrote it. It dealt with the quest for
an accurate time-keeping mechanism from antiquity and the difficulties they encountered.
Could it have been The Discoverers?
Thanks, Terry, for clearing that up. A couple of strong cups of black coffee help the frontal neocortex too.
Coffee use to help...but now...I'm far past help. A good night's sleep is the only elixir. Those are hard to come by.
Terry, I'm glad you didn't catch your error in the SUBJECT: line until it was too late.
As the saying goes, "In typo veritas."
