Worse, this device of Harrison’s had all the complexity of the longitude problem already hardwired into its works. The user didn’t have to master math or astronomy or gain experience to make it go. Something unseemly attended the sea clock, in the eyes of scientists and celestial navigators. Something facile.
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Kind of like cryopreservation with cryoprotectants vs ixation? Is it too easy/cheating? This was one of Darwin’s critiques. To me I have always liked to “cheat” by making things easy when possible
