[John] Harrison [could not] express himself clearly in writing.... No matter how brilliantly ideas formed in his mind, or crystallized in his clockworks, his verbal descriptions failed to shine with the same light.... The first sentence [of his last published work] runs on, virtually unpunctuated, for twenty-five pages." Dava Sobel, Longitude, p66
Dava SobelAny clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.
Dava Sobel
Stichwörter: science time stars clocks earth-rotation
He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.
Dava SobelStichwörter: science invention history-of-mankind inventors
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