The travels and trials of Mr Harrison's timekeeper

Instruments, Travel and Science: Itineraries of Precision from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 75-95

  Bennett, Jim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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1. D. Sobel, Longitude: the True Story of a Lone Genius who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time, London, 1995
2. W.J.H. Andrewes (ed.) The Quest for Longitude, Cambridge, Mass., 1996, contributions by Andrew L. King, William J.H. Andrewes, Anthony G. Randall, Martin Burgess.
3. The best account remains H. Quill, John Harrison: the Man who Found Longitude, London, 1966.
4. Note also R.T. Gould, The Marine Chronometer: the History and Development, London, 1923.
5. J. Harrison, A Description Concerning such Mechanism as will Afford a Nice, or True Mensuration of Time, London, 1775.
6. An Account of the Proceedings in order to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, 2nd edition, London, 1763, appendix vii.
7. Quill, op. cit., pp. 91-2.
8. The Gentleman's Magazine, 31, 1761, pp. 437-9.
9. For longitude by Jupiter's satellites, see A. Van Helden, 'Longitude and the Satellites of Jupiter', in Andrewes, op. cit., pp. 86-100
10. for the lunar distance method, see D. Howse, 'The Lunar-Distance Method of Measuring Longitude', in Andrewes, op. cit., pp. 150-62.
11. Quill, op. cit., p. 113.
12. The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, 53, 1775-6, p. 321.
13. Quill, op. cit., pp. 111-12, 117-18
14. An Account of the Proceedings in order to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea, 2 editions, London, 1763.
15. Quill, op. cit., pp. 118-20.
16. Journal of the House of Commons, 29, 1761-4, pp. 546-53, 601.
17. A Narrative of the Proceedings, op. cit., p. 6.
18. The Gentleman's Magazine, 33, 1763, pp. 230-4.
19. Harrison, A Description Concerning such Mechanism, op. cit., pp. 66, 53.
20. The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, 53, 1775-6, p. 322.
21. Journal of the House of Commons, 30, 1765, entries for 19 February and 6, 8 and 20 March.
22. The Monthly Review; or Literary Journal, 53, 1775-6, p. 322
23. note also The Annual Register, 5, 1765, pp. 113-33.
24. For Ludlam, see The Annual Register, 8, 1765, p. 130
25. for Ludlam and Mitchell, see Quill, op. cit., pp. 151-2, 154-5
26. for Kendall, see Quill, op. cit., p. 181
27. for Bird, see J.A. Bennett, 'Science Lost and Longitude Found: the Tercentenary of John Harrison', Journal for the History of Astronomy, 24, 1993, 281-7, see p. 286.
28. N. Maskelyne, An Account of the Going of Mr. John Harrison's Watch, at the Royal Observatory, London, 1767.
29. Remarks on a Pamphlet Lately Published by the Rev. Mr. Maskelyne, London, 1767.
30. The Gentleman's Magazine, 37, 1767, p. 156.
31. W. Emerson, The Mathematical Principles of Geography, Navigation and Dialling, London, 1770, p. 172.
32. The Gentleman's Magazine, 35, 1765, pp. 34-5.