Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / Jona...
Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / Jona...
Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / Jonathan Betts.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N681.11809/2
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English
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p. cm.
Contents
Childhood 1890-1905 -- Navy training 1906-1913 -- The war, a breakdown, and marriage -- John Harrison and the marine chronometer -- Research and the first restorations 1920-1922 -- The magnum opus 1921-1923 -- Horology : the obsession -- H2 is restored 1923-1925 -- The sette of odd volumes -- Separa...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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England
Date Published
2006.
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"In this first-ever biography of Rupert Gould, Jonathan Betts, the Royal Observatory Greenwich's Senior Horologist, has given us a compelling account of a talented but flawed individual. Using hitherto unknown personal journals, the family's extensive collection of photographs, and the polymath's surviving records and notes, Betts tells the story o...
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Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything / Jonathan Betts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N681.11809/2
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74VKv8OKm7OM
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ISBN
0198568029 (alk. paper)
9780198568025 (alk. paper)
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681.118092 B
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991021634029702626
