Concerning the use of watches at sea

There is a wonderful article from 1669 explaining the correlation
between clocks and axial rotation about 7 years before Flamsteed made
that catastrophic error of tying axial rotation directly to celestial
sphere geometry and justifying it by using the Earth's axial and
orbital motions -

Philosophical Transactions (1665-1678)
ISSN: 0370-2316
Volume: Volume 4 - 1669

Pages: 937 - 976

'Concerning the use of pendulum watches for finding the Longitude at
sea'

http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/media/mgat4ef0al0rnke03h2m/contributions/w/0/m/3/w0m31406967t5702.pdf

It cannot be imagined why people would choose an alternative system
based on the return of a star but that no authority exists to swiftly
correct this intellectual and intuitive holocaust may be the worse part
of it all.

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