Longitude Resources in the BC Library Media Center
Information on Individuals
Galileo
Concerning the two new sciences, by Galileo Galilei
Library Media Center -- AC1.G72
The crime of Galileo
Library Media Center -- QB36.G2D4 1955
Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems, Ptolemaic & Copernican (by
Galileo)
Library Media Center -- QB41.G1356
Galileo at work: his scientific biography
Library Media Center -- QB36.G2D69
Galileo's daughter : a historical memoir of science, faith, and love
Library Media Center -- QB36.G2S65 2000
Galileo Galilei: a biography and inquiry into his philosophy of science
Library Media Center -- QB36.G2G655
Isaac Newton
Let Newton be!
Library Media Center -- QC16.N7L47 1988
Portrait of Isaac Newton
Library Media Center -- QC16.N7M3
Sir Isaac Newton
Library Media Center -- QC16.N7 A56
Captain James Cook
Captain Cook's world : maps of the life and voyages of James Cook R.N.
Library Media Center -- G420.C65R63 2000
Captain James Cook
Library Media Center -- G246.C7V53
Voyages of discovery : Captain Cook and the exploration of the Pacific
Library Media Center -- DU20.W55 1989
Astronomy
The eye of heaven : Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler
Library Media Center -- QB15.G563 1993
God and the astronomers
Library Media Center -- QB981.J27 1978
Stairways to the stars : skywatching in three great ancient cultures
Library Media Center -- QB16.A88 1997
Three Copernican treatises: the Commentariolus of Copernicus, the Letter against
Werner, the Narratio prima of Rheticus
Library Media Center -- QB41.C84
Whitney's Star finder : a field guide to the heavens
Library Media Center -- QB65.W48 1985
Worlds in the sky : planetary discovery from earliest times through Voyager and
Magellan
Library Media Center -- QB601.S543 1992
Navigation & Sailing
The charting of the oceans : ten centuries of maritime maps
Library Media Center -- GA359.W47 1996
The complete nautical astronomer
Library Media Center -- VK555.C869 1969
Enlightenment and exploration in the North Pacific, 1741-1805
Library Media Center -- F907.E55 1997
The great age of sail
Library Media Center -- VM15.J613
The great South Sea : English voyages and encounters, 1570-1750
Library Media Center -- D20.W717 1997
Guns, sails and empires; technological innovation and the early phases of
European expansion, 1400-1700
Library Media Center -- UF565.E9C5 1966
Historical Atlas of Exploration 1492-1600
Library Media Center -- REF G95.K66 2000
Men, ships, and the sea, by Alan Villiers and other adventures on the sea
Library Media Center -- G540.V646
Two years before the mast
Library Media Center -- G540.D25
Voyage of the Columbia; around the world with John Boit, 1790-1793 (With
comments on the art of navigation)
Library Media Center -- G420.C57B6
Non-European Navigation
Kon-Tiki: across the Pacific by raft
Library Media Center -- G530.T463 1950
We, the navigators : the ancient art of landfinding in the Pacific
Library Media Center -- GN440.L48 1994
Time & Clocks (Horology)
From sundials to atomic clocks : understanding time and frequency
Library Media Center -- QB209.J47
Motion and time study: principles and practices
Library Media Center -- T60.M85 1970
The structure of time
Library Media Center -- BD638.N46
The trail of time: time measurement with incense in East Asia
Library Media Center -- TS543.E18B43 1994
The voices of time; a cooperative survey of man's views of time as expressed by
the sciences and by the humanities
Library Media Center -- BD638.F7
Web resources
Galileo
The Galileo Project (Rice Univ.)
John Harrison & Longitude
John Harrison, 1693-1776, horologist
BBC Article on Harrison’s H4 Chronometer Being Wound Again
Royal Observatory Greenwich
Other individuals to consider:
Isaac Newton
Nevil Maskelyne
Gemma Frisius (idea of using timekeeper to find longitude)
Christiaan Huygens
Tobias Mayer (lunar distance theory)
John Jefferys (made pocket watch for Harrison)
Captain James Cook (tested K-1, exact copy of H-4)
Larcum Kendall (made K-1)
Rupert Gould (restored H-1, H-2, H-3, H-4 in 20th century)
Clocks & Time (Horology)
The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Horology
Internet Public Library: Horology
National Institute of Standards & Technology – Evolution of Time Measurement
Pendulum clocks
Christiaan Huygens’ Pendulum Clocks
Latitude and Longitude
Latitude & Longitude
NOVA Online—Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Navigation
GPS
Compasses
History of the Sextant
Non-European Navigation
Polynesian Voyaging Society
NOVA Online—Ancient Navigation
Wayfinders: A Pacific Odyssey
Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific
Bellevue College Library Media Center
June 10, 2010