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Originally Posted by crich70
Certainly those surveyors owe a debt to Harrison and his clocks. The sextant could tell you where you were in terms of N/S of the equator (Latitude) but it was Harrison's time piece that opened things up for greater precision in fixing your longitude (E/W of your home port) and therefore allowed the continents to be pictured fairly accurately on maps for the first time.
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Correct, which meant that the two books overlapped more then a bit and I was not quite as interested in the additional politics of Longitude as I was in the additional navigational experience of Sextant.