According to Dava Sobel's Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time, many different methods were attempted to calculate longitude before John Harrison's chronometers, made from 1730 - 1761. Which of the following was never part of a proposed solution at that time?
a. position of Jupiter's moons
b. gyroscopes
c. a wounded dog
d. sun's elevation above horizon
e. movement of moon
f. many cannons
(First trivia question of the first iDigBio Georeferncing Train-the-trainers Workshop, day 1, October 8th, 2012).
Best Guess
sun's elevation above horizon(d.)
answer
f
C a wounded dog
C a wounded dog
b. gyroscopes
b. gyroscopes
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a wounded dog?
a wounded dog?
e
e
Cannons
I vote for cannons
a. position of Jupiter's
a. position of Jupiter's moons
answer
d