UID:
almahu_9948021242002882
Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 464 p.) :
,
ill. (some col.), map.
ISBN:
9780191718144 (ebook) :
,
0191718149 (ebook) :
Content:
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.
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780198568025
Language:
English
URL:
Oxford scholarship online
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