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Bad Map Projection: ABS(Longitude) [Explained]

250 years military maritime sea clocks 2023 marks the 330th anniversary of John Harrison's birth but also the 250th anniversary since the last bit of Longitude Prize money was awarded by British parliament. In 1773, 80 years old English clock maker John Harrsion was awarded the final amount of Prize money for his " seawatch n° 1 " H4 clock which solved the Longitude problem. Harrison had been working half a century to perfect his watches . Note the great details in these paintings, with Harrison holding John Jefferys watch and his own H4 clock on the table besides him. As Great Britain asserted its position with France and had to avoid these precious time keepers could be caught by Spanish or Dutch navy ships, copies of Harrison H4 were sent on sea trials. A time of sextants and clocks, while today's rise of technology has isolated us from the natural World, unfortunately much to our detriment. (National Maritime Museum - Greenwich GB)

Holiday Science History Book Recommendations

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The holidays are coming up! Need some inspiration for presents? Here are some of the best science history books I’ve read this year if you need a place to start

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail by Stephen R. Brown

🍋 The adventure behind the discovery of the cause and cure for scurvy 🍋

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

🕰️ Latitude is trivial to measure but a good way to measure longitude took hundreds of years, the invention of non-pendulum clocks, and a meeting with the King of England 🕰️

The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson

💧 This book on the history of a deadly cholera outbreak in London reads more like a murder mystery and thriller 💧

Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling by Thomas Hager

🧪 Pauling is a true “force of nature” and dominated chemistry in the first half of the 20th century and help spearhead what is essentially modern chemistry 🧪

Sir Michael John Gambon CBE (/ˈɡæmbɒn/; October 19, 1940 – September 27, 2023) Film, stage and television actor. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four BAFTA Awards. In 1998, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for services to drama. Gambon enhanced his stardom through his role of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series from 2004 to 2011, replacing Richard Harris following his death in 2002.

For his work on television, he received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect Strangers (2001). He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Path to War (2002) and Emma (2009). Other notable projects include Cranford (2007) and The Casual Vacancy (2015). In 2017, he received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award.

In 1967, he made his television debut in the BBC television adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing as Watchman No. 4. He also appeared in British programmes such as Softly, Softly (1967), and Public Eye (1968). From 1968 to 1970, he featured in the BBC historical series The Borderers as Gavin Kerr. He also had a recurring role in the Canadian series The Challengers (1972). He also appeared in drama anthology series including Play for Today, Play of the Month, and ITV Playhouse.

His craggy looks soon made him into a character actor. For his lead role in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective (1986) he won his first British Academy Television Award for Best Actor. He starred as detective Inspector Jules Maigret in an ITV adaptation of twelve of Georges Simenon's books. In 1990, he played Jerry in Harold Pinter's Betrayal for BBC Radio 3. In 1991, he starred as Tommy Hanbury in an episode of the ITV series Minder called "Look Who's Coming To Pinner". He also appeared in the BBC serial Wives and Daughters (1999) based on the Victorian novel by the same name by Elizabeth Gaskell. He portrayed Squire Hamley and received his second BAFTA Award nomination and win for Best Actor. (Wikipedia)

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Their names are Latitude and Longitude now cause idk their names.

I forgot I had a Tumblr, and my siblings been telling me to post so here.

Storybots are so silly.

21 mars 1762 : mort du géodésien et découvreur du ciel austral Nicolas-Louis de la Caille ➽ http://bit.ly/Nicolas-Louis-La-Caille Âgé de 23 ans, La Caille renonça à l’état ecclésiastique pour s’adonner à l’astronomie, dans laquelle, sans maîtres, sans instruments et presque sans livres, il avait déjà fait des progrès étonnants. On lui doit notamment une méthode pour connaître la longitude en mer par l’observation de la lune, et la détermination de la position d’environ 10 000 étoiles

History’s most famous innovation prize—the longitude rewards—is misunderstood. Innovation prizes are best at promoting refinements, not revolutions.

I think Fandom (Wikia) has an explanation problem now

So… I'm not normally one to be obsessed with online privacy like all those hardcore Debian and Pale Moon fanboys are. But I did get pretty stunned when I discovered tonight that Fandom (Wikia) saves and publicly stores very detailed position data that were part of the metadata of photos uploaded to Fandom wikis.

When I say very, I mean very. Depending on the camera model, Fandom shows longitude+latitude seconds with decimals, as well as altitude. With sufficiently bad luck, this means the photos can be tracked to the exact house. Probably not what people who take photos of PC monitors instead of taking actual screenshots had in mind.

This is utterly baffling in more ways than can be counted with numbers.

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High-sea watchmaking: Arnold & Son Longitude Titanium

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100 years ago... LtCmdr Rupert Gould best selling book 100 years ago, Royal Navy LtCmdr Rupert Gould (1890-1948) published his famous book " The Marine Chronometer " (preface December 1922 - 1923) but we didn't have to wait a century for a worthy reprint as in 2013 the ACC Antique Collectors' Club brought out their 365 pages version... and again in 2016. A truly amazing book with extra chapter full of great color photographs as both reprints almost sold out immediately. October 5th, 2023 will be the 75th anniversary of the passing of LtCmdr Rupert Gould, a Royal Navy officer who safed, cleaned and repaired John Harrison's Marine clocks, naming H1 to H5. More recommended reading: Time Restored: The Harrison Timekeepers and RT Gould, the man who knew (almost) everything (2006 Oxford Univ Press). (Photos: MWU & Nat Maritime Museum)

The principles of Mr. Harrison's time-keeper; with plates of the same

Designs for the H4, the fourth chronometer from John Harrison that would eventually be used to determine the vexing question of longitude at sea

A type of earth globe

You have seen little of the world of earth A portrait, an excellently painted work of the artist

Rather, you will see images that surprise you You will be a double Orbis, small and Orbis.

Atlas Minor, of Gerardi the Mercator, enlarged and illustrated by I. Hondius with many tables of the age: again revised and improved with the addition of new drawings. Amsterdam Ex Officina, Joannis Jansson II