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| '''Board of Longitude'''
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| The acid test for the Board of Longitude was the accuracy of a timekeeper at sea over time. In 1598 King Philip III of Spain (ruled 1598–1621) offered a considerable life pension to the discoverer of longitude.
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| == Literature ==
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| *Andrewes, William J. H., ed. [[The Quest for Longitude]]. Cambridge, Mass., 1996.
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| *Bedini, Silvio A. [[The Pulse of Time: Galileo Galilei, the Determination of Longitude, and the Pendulum Clock]]. Florence, 1991.
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| *Gould, Rupert T. [[John Harrison and His Timekeepers]]. London, 1978.
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| *Howse, Derek. [[Greenwich Time and the Discovery of Longitude]]. London, 1997.
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| *Landes, David. [[Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World]]. Cambridge, Mass., 1983.
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| *Quill, Humphrey. [[John Harrison, the Man Who Found Longitude]]. London, 1966.
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| *Sobel, Dava. [[Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time]]. New York, 1995.
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| *Sobel, Dava, and William J. H. Andrewes. [[The Illustrated Longitude]]. New York, 1998.
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| *Taylor, E. G. R. [[The Haven-Finding Art: A History of Navigation from Odysseus to Captain Cook]]. London, 1971
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