Authors, instrument makers, public lecturers, and opportunists set their plans to solve the problem of longitude in published books or with displays of accurate timepieces.
The timepiece in question seems to have relied upon the movement of a fluid, something like sand in an hourglass.
Watson had also been involved in an earlier use of timepieces in the service of science, specifically medical science.
Again, it is not enough to focus exclusively on the media, for tape, theodolite, sextant, timepiece and writing and drawing utensils come together in this visual culture.
I have in front of me a timepiece which indicates the time.
His design did not provide us with more than one timepiece; the timepiece that exists to-day is the one that he put there.
If it does, it is simply a timepiece.
Finally, it ran through its non-rechargeable batteries more swiftly than was convenient for a device meant to be worn as a timepiece.
