History & The Arts
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
...data from Holmes, but on the basis of conversations with one of his sea captains, he himself volunteered some significant corrections to the original account given: I am due to dine with Mr Holmes tomorrow, and it is my intention to try to get his account in writing, which he promised me when we last parted. However, I have spoken to another officer of one of the ships...