Time Restored

Auteur: Betts, Jonathan (Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
Biography of the polymath, Lt Cmdr Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the man who, in the 1920s, restored the great eighteenth century marine timekeepers by John Harrison to their former glory. With his encyclopaedic knowledge, he studied and wrote on subjects as varied as scientific mysteries (e.g. The Loch Ness Monster) and horology (timekeeping).
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Biography of the polymath, Lt Cmdr Rupert T. Gould (1890-1948), the man who, in the 1920s, restored the great eighteenth century marine timekeepers by John Harrison to their former glory. With his encyclopaedic knowledge, he studied and wrote on subjects as varied as scientific mysteries (e.g. The Loch Ness Monster) and horology (timekeeping).
ISBN / EAN 9780198568025
Auteur Betts, Jonathan (Royal Observatory, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich)
Editeur Oxford University Press