Hang on, wasn't there a tv two parter with Michael Gambon as Harrison and Jeremy Irons as a 20th century creature rediscovering him, based on this book?
Unsurprisingly, I've never heard of it. Let us know if you watch it!
Mind you, checking out wiki, it also seems to think G3 saved the day for Harrison. And while he was still compos mentis, he was interested in the sciences and very supportive.
Oh, sure, the factual aspect of G3 saving Harrison is not the part I'm questioning! That seems well enough documented. It's the fairy-tale vibe of good triumphing over evil and the monarch as a symbol of good that I'm side-eyeing. Maybe it was that one-sided! But I feel like a book written from the perspective of the astronomers miiiight have more to say about their contributions and not just how they persecuted poor Harrison.
(I have to say, reading Czernin after Blanning on Joseph II was kind of a trip. I walked away glad I had read *both*, because each of them showed me exactly how selective the other was being.)
What lovely pictures you have, as always! I have not been; have not been to London, in fact. My planned 2018 trip got canceled a few days before I was due to leave, because work was being brutal. :/ But the Royal Observatory looks amazing, and I will keep it in mind when I do finally make it to London.
Re: Longitude
Unsurprisingly, I've never heard of it. Let us know if you watch it!
Mind you, checking out wiki, it also seems to think G3 saved the day for Harrison. And while he was still compos mentis, he was interested in the sciences and very supportive.
Oh, sure, the factual aspect of G3 saving Harrison is not the part I'm questioning! That seems well enough documented. It's the fairy-tale vibe of good triumphing over evil and the monarch as a symbol of good that I'm side-eyeing. Maybe it was that one-sided! But I feel like a book written from the perspective of the astronomers miiiight have more to say about their contributions and not just how they persecuted poor Harrison.
(I have to say, reading Czernin after Blanning on Joseph II was kind of a trip. I walked away glad I had read *both*, because each of them showed me exactly how selective the other was being.)
What lovely pictures you have, as always! I have not been; have not been to London, in fact. My planned 2018 trip got canceled a few days before I was due to leave, because work was being brutal. :/ But the Royal Observatory looks amazing, and I will keep it in mind when I do finally make it to London.