Marine Chronometer

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"The fundamental event of the modern age is the conquest of the world as picture." - Heidegger, "The Age of the World Picture"

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John Harrison's 1714 H1 Marine Chronometer

Although it is widely considered the John Harrison's invention of the Marine Chronometer in 1714

Historical Context

Sundials - The original Real-Time Display

The division of day and night is our most fundamental reference for marking the passage of time, yet the sundial, from its most primitive beginnings, made it possible to subdivide time even further, transforming day from the general presence of sunlight to an incremental passage of reference

Ptolemy - Projecting the Grid

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Ptolemy's World Map from Geographia circa 150 A.D.

The Shape of the Earth - Towards a more precise map

Longitude and the World-Picture

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Henricus Hondius' 1633 World Map. Note the distortion of the Mediterranean Sea and the necessity of two seperate hemispheres.

Greenwich and the Longitude Prize

Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation

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A Moscow Subway Map:Knowledge of the transportation system makes the city's geographic distribution less important than the internal logic of nodal distribution.

Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space

Staying Tuned: Towards a Distributed Nomadic Standard

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GPS has enabled unprecedented precision in mapping and navigation
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Archigram's Plug-in City imagined a networked megastructure that could support "plugged-in" interchangeable spaces

Although the cartographic achievements that proliferated in the wake of Harrison's chronometer heralded in an era of unprecedented accuracy in Cartography, perhaps its greater legacy was its