History & The Arts
Never trust a pirate: Christiaan Huygens’s Longitude Clocks
...open seas. There is indeed a full sequence of entries relating to Holmes and his fellow captains getting lost and running short of water, which does, uniquely in the entire journal, mention ‘pendula’ (this fair copy of the journal was prepared for James, Duke of York, the future James II). It was with great reluctance that Holmes’s companions agreed to turn...