Since there was already a book we’d started talking about ready to go, we began by reading Longitude. Emily takes reading very, very seriously, and the company book club that she would create (the Slack channel we use for the group was created by her, so I don’t need to rely on my awful memory for that) would be her third concurrent reading group. I don’t recall exactly who it was that suggested we start a company book club, but my money would be on Brand Manager Emily Volk. Schoneck’s excitement over the history of this one man’s lifelong quest to create a sea-clock that would eventually revolutionize mapmaking and sea travel was contagious, and several of us showed interest. 1 Second Everyday’s COO Schoneck Shoaf was talking about a book he’d recently started reading – a nonfiction book called Longitude by Dava Sobel, about an English carpenter and watchmaker named John Harrison, who designed the first reliably working sea-clock.

57 - An instrument for measuring time very accurately such as a watch or clock moniker (n.) p.It started as a casual before-dinner conversation during 1SE’s team retreat in Cancun, Mexico. 57 - New word or expression chronometer (n.) p. 48 - A unit of length equal to six feet (approximately 1.8 m), chiefly used in reference to the depth of water.

37 - A person who makes clocks or watches fathom (n.) p. the constellations or fixed stars, not the sun or planets) horologist (n.) p. 29 - Of or with respect to the distant stars (i.e. ferment (n.) p.29 - A state of great excitement sidereal (adj.) p. 28 - The greatest naked-eye astronomer of all time. 16 - The Act's full title was 'An Act for providing a Publick Reward for such Person or Persons as shall discover the Longitude at Sea'. They compose the heavens, which are considered to be ethereal and unchanging. The Moon, the planets, the Sun, and the stars all rotate around the Earth (which stays still), with uniform circular motion. Geocentric Theory (proper n.) - In the geocentric system, the Earth is considered to be the center of the solar system. 3 - Alexandrian astronomer who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until Copernicus (2nd century AD)

The prime meridian is arbitrary, meaning it could be chosen to be anywhere. 2 - The prime meridian is the line of 0° longitude, the starting point for measuring distance both east and west around the Earth.

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