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The original hardback did have pictures, if I remember correctly, and the movie, of course, has either the real clocks or very realistic replicas. (I've seen H1, H3 and H4, but I don't think H2 was on display when I was there. Or maybe it was H2 on display and H3 wasn't. Not sure.)
I'll have a lot more to say later, when I have a moment, but one thing was brought to mind by current events and the first chapter of the book. In 1707, 2,000 men lost their lives in a single catastrophe caused by an incorrectly calculated longitude. And last week, 79 (or more) people lost their lives in a fire in a London high rise. The first led to the Longitude Act, and one can only speculate about what the second will do, but it's sure to lead to changes. Not to minimize (not in ANY way), but most people who lived in the tower survived. Two people survived the shipwreck in 1707. Is it any wonder that Parliament was willing to pay a monstrous sum to find a solution?
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