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Time and time again : determination of longitude at sea in the 17th century /
Determination of one's longitude at sea has perplexed sailors for many centuries. The significant uptake of world trade in the 17th and 18th Centuries rendered the increasingly urgent need to solve the 'longitude problem', an issue of strategic national importance. Historical accounts...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) :
IOP Publishing,
[2017]
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| Colección: | IOP (Series). Release 4.
IOP expanding physics. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Foreword
- 1. Changing times
- 1.1. Enlightenment in Western Europe : the Dutch Golden Age
- 1.2. Intermezzo : The rise of the scientist
- 1.3. Scholarly communication and scientific networks in the 17th century
- 1.4. Birth of the learned societies and their scientific journals
- 1.5. The 17th Century : early modern pinnacle of human ingenuity
- 2. Global development of mathematical geography
- 2.1. Coordinate systems
- 2.2. Early cartography and mapping
- 2.3. Towards reliable navigation across the open seas
- 3. Early insights inspired by Galileo Galilei
- 3.1. Galileo's influence
- 3.2. Christiaan Huygens, inventor of the pendulum clock
- 4. The importance of high-precision timekeeping
- 4.1. Horologium (1658) and beyond
- 4.2. From Horologium Oscillatorium (1673) to new long-range sea trials
- 5. The long road to a practical marine timepiece
- 5.1. Spring-driven clock developments
- 5.2. Return to the marine pendulum design
- 6. The merits of horology versus astronomy
- 6.1. The nature of gravity
- 6.2. Newton's early contributions to resolving the longitude problem
- 6.3. Human ingenuity
- 6.4. Developments leading up to the 1714 Longitude Act
- Epilogue. Zero longitude.