The correlated web site at PBS.org is:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/longitude/
ken
Kenneth Collins wrote in message
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>When it first came out, I enjoyed reading Dava Sorbel's [sp?]
>excellent account, _Longitude_, which told the story of John
>Harrison's efforts in perfecting the Chronometer.
>>The problem of "longitude" is analogous to the main problem that
>stood in the way of the going-forward of Neuroscience - the
>'coordinate' system was incompletely-reified.
>>Tonight, on _Nova_ [PBS, 8:00pm], Harrison's story will be delivered
>in the TV medium.
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