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SUMMARY:It's not longitude that matters\, it's what you do with it that co
 unts - Katy Barrett
DTSTART:20131203T203000Z
DTEND:20131203T210000Z
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CONTACT:Benjamin Folit-Weinberg
DESCRIPTION:In 1714\, the British government passed an act to encourage pr
 oposals for methods to discover the longitude at sea. Creating a Board of 
 Commissioners to judge proposals\, and offering three large potential rewa
 rds for successful ones\, this is one of the first examples of state spons
 ored science. The trials and tribulations that followed for the clockmaker
  John Harrison have become one of the best-known stories in the history of
  science. Longitude was an intense and wide-ranging topic of interest and 
 discussion for its day\, not just a question of navigation at sea\, but of
  argument\, satire and comedy at home. This talk considers why longitude m
 attered\, what people did with it\, and what that meant for finding it at 
 sea.\n
LOCATION:Senior Parlour\, Gonville &amp\; Caius College
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