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: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is written by Dava Sobel. The book is called because it is about a clock maker who was able to determine . Determining was the superlative scientific question in the eighteenth century that Galileo and New ....
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....lement to ensure a unchanging drive and a more agreeable temperature reimbursement device. Although its motion was adequately regular and exact for finding the of a ship within the nearest limits proposed by the Parliament, H-2 was not good enough for Harrison. So, Harrison devoted nineteen years to build H-3. The H-3 was the leanest of the sea clocks and was small enough to meet the definition of “shipshape.” H-3 contained bearings in the caged ball that smoothened the operation.... |
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