Ed, If you're interested in the history of "Longitude", you need to read this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140258795/002-0790976-0169613?v=glance&n=283155 I guess I should say "Watch the wrap". I located it using "amazon sobel longitude".
You should also visit this site: http://www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/ and, its sister site: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/ Best, of course, would be to visit both physically. For good measure, here's the site as Giovanni Antonio Canal,aka Canaletto, saw it - although how he's managed to avoid including the observatory at the top of the hill is a mystery: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/mag/pages/mnuExplore/ViewLargeImage.cfm?ID=BHC1827&letter=G Your quoted article doesn't really start at the beginning. As today, nobody raises a fuss over anything unless prompted. In the case of that petition to Parliament it was the wonderfully named Admiral Sir Cloudisley Shovell who had a bit of bother off the British coast due to not really knowing where he was. All hands bar two were lost and one of those - the knight himself as it happens - didn't last long. Check http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/testtime.html which shows - a sad joke I fear - that "timing is everything". Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Finnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, 22 February, 2006 4:58 AM Subject: Re: Military Time? > In a message dated 2/21/2006 6:57:11 P.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > ITYM longitudes. > > I saw this on the History Channel and was fascinated.... > re:longitude. > > _http://www.surveyhistory.org/john_harrison's_timepiece1.htm_ > (http://www.surveyhistory.org/john_harrison's_timepiece1.htm) > > There was also one on the antichrynas(?) found by divers in the > Mediterranean of an analog machine that tracked the planet's movements. They were > claiming 'computer' that predates Babbage by thousands of years maybe designed by > Archimedes but all records were lost when the great library at Alexandria was > burned. > > It was on Arthur C. Clark's Mysterious World a few years ago but they were > pointing at a lost culture? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
