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9780198568025
This is the biography of the polymath, R.T. Gould, the man who, in the 1920s, restored the great 18th century marine timekeepers by John Harrison to their former glory. With his encyclopaedic knowledge, he studied and wrote on subjects as varied as scientific mysteries and horology.Betts, Jonathan is the author of 'Time Restored The Harrison Timekeepers and R.t. Gould, the Man Who Knew (Almost) Everything', published 2006 under ISBN 9780198568025 and ISBN 0198568029.
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