Time restored the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything
This is the biography of the polymath, R.T. Gould, the man who in the 1920s, restored the great 18th 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 and horology
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2006, 2006
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This is the biography of the polymath, R.T. Gould, the man who in the 1920s, restored the great 18th 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 and horology |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 464 p. ill. (some col.), map |
| ISBN: | 9780191718144 0191718149 |