[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

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Any clock that can track this sideral schedule proves itself as perfect as God's magnificent clockwork.

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He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch.

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Tag: science invention history-of-mankind inventors

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