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The Shifting Sands of Time - Guest - 04-28-2022 Dust to dust, heya?! lol Don't forget all that water.   RE: The Shifting Sands of Time - Guest - 07-27-2022 Course Changes of the Mississippi River https://www.nps.gov/vick/learn/nature/river-course-changes.htm RE: The Shifting Sands of Time - 3rd Rock - 08-08-2022 RE: The Shifting Sands of Time - Guest - 08-08-2022   RE: The Shifting Sands of Time - Guest - 08-08-2022 In the eighteenth century, the only way to navigate accurately at sea was to follow a coastline all the way, which would not get you from Europe to the West Indies or the Americas. Observing the sun or stars would give you the latitude, but not the longitude unless done in conjunction with a clock that would keep time accurately at sea, and no such clock existed. After one too many maritime disasters due to navigational errors, the British Parliament set up a substantial prize for a way to find the longitude at sea. This movie's main story is that of craftsman John Harrison (Sir Michael Gambon). He built a clock that would do the job, what we would now call a marine chronometer. But the Board of Longitude was biased against this approach and claiming the prize was no simple matter. Told in parallel is the twentieth century story of Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons), for whom the restoration of Harrison's clocks to working order became first a hobby, then an obsession that threatened to wreck his life. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0192263/ https://youtu.be/LHvt48S9l4w