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19: 126:(September 1970 ), p. 504 – 'Although it is generally conceded that Jeremy Thacker first made use of the term "chronometer" in print in 1714, William Derham used it independently in his communication "Observations concerning the Motions of Chronometers" addressed to the Royal Society on 4 November 1714. In it he discusses the technical difficulties of making an accurate timekeeper for use at sea.' 196:
Antimo Tempera, L'Oriuolo giusto d'Antimo Tempera utilissimo a'naviganti, etc.., in Roma per Michele Ercole (1688), British Museum General Reference Collection 1578/4715. NB The author is widely reported elsewhere as 'Antonio Tempora', the result of two misprints in earlier works (Baillie's
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and within a vacuum, and that sea trials would take place. It has been concluded by others that such tests must have resulted in failure. The idea of a vacuum for a marine clock had already been proposed by the Italian clockmaker Antimo Tempera in 1668. Slightly later,
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Gregory Lynall, 'Scriblerian Projections of Longitude: Arbuthnot, Swift, and the Agency of Satire in a Culture of Invention', Journal of Literature and Science, vol. 7, no. 2 (2014), ISSN 1754-646X, pp. 1–18.
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and Andrew King, both noted Harrisonians, who argued that, as Rogers acknowledged, there were in fact "convincing reasons for accepting the traditional view that some good science is dropped into the project".
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in November 2008, Pat Rogers argued that "Thacker may never have existed and his proposal now emerges possibly as a hoax?". Rogers argues Thacker was an invention of
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The Longitudes examin'd. Beginning with a short epistle to the Longitudinarians, and ending with the description of a ... machine of my own, etc
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was a possibly apocryphal 18th-century writer and watchmaker, who for a long time was believed to be the first to have coined the word "
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Andrewes, W.J.H., 'Even Newton could be wrong: the story of Harrison's first three see clocks', in Andrewes W.J.H. (ed),
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Köberer, Wolfgang (2 April 2016). "On the First Use of the Term 'Chronometer'".
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For example, Charles Aked, 'William Derham and the "Artificial Clockmaker"',
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Old Ironsides: eagle of the sea : the story of the USS Constitution
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would successfully build marine timekeepers from 1730.
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has now been found. Thacker is credited with writing
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Index


Chronometer
chronometer
longitude
William Derham
marine chronometer
gimbals
John Harrison
Times Literary Supplement
John Arbuthnot
satire
longitude
Jonathan Betts

doi
10.1080/00253359.2016.1167400
ISSN
0025-3359

"The Longitude impostor – TheTLS"
"Letter following up Jeremy Thacker: Longitude fake?"
Categories
English clockmakers
18th-century English writers
18th-century English male writers
18th-century British writers

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