I find the quest for longitude (i.e., time) fascinating. At some point, I will get into collecting sextants, chronometers, etc. (narrator's voice: but not today.)
One more suggested and very fun resource: Time & Navigation - the Untold Story of Getting from Here to There
This gets into celestial navigation, which ultimately moves to terrestrial (LORAN) and then back again to space-based systems (GPS, Glonass, Beidou etc) again.
Bravo. Really enjoyed this. Sharing two resources as reference:
Dava Sobel, Longitude
Steven Johnson, How We Got to Now, which has a chapter on time
Wow thank you for those references. It’s opportune too! I’m so deep in “time research” :)
I find the quest for longitude (i.e., time) fascinating. At some point, I will get into collecting sextants, chronometers, etc. (narrator's voice: but not today.)
One more suggested and very fun resource: Time & Navigation - the Untold Story of Getting from Here to There
This gets into celestial navigation, which ultimately moves to terrestrial (LORAN) and then back again to space-based systems (GPS, Glonass, Beidou etc) again.
Thanks! Yeah it’s a fascinating topic for me, time is a complex concept, intangible, relative and hard to measure. Everything about it is hard.
I just started reading Longitude! It’s a pretty short and entertaining read (so far).