An edition of Time restored (2006)
Time Restored
The Harrison Timekeepers and R.T. Gould, the Man Who Knew (Almost) Everything
By Jonathan Betts
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Publish Date
August 21, 2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Language
eng
Pages
480
Description:
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.