QuoteQuest“One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made.”
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- Wikiquote: Isaac Newton
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Context
Written in remarks to the 1714 Longitude committee; quoted in Longitude (1995) by Dava Sobel, p. 52 (i998 edition) )
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Newton, Isaac. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Isaac Newton. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
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