The greatest horological books of the 20th Century?
Mon, 11 February 2019 11:06
The greatest horological books of the 20th Century?
The below book is often mentioned as belonging to the Mount Olympus of horological literature—what other books would garnish such laurels for 20th century horological books: candidates appreciated.
“The Marine Chronometer: Its History and Development”—Rupert T. Gould. From the foreword to the 2nd edition...
Times Literary Supplement 1923
The book represents not only an astonishing piece of industry, but a scientific work of a high order. If the Royal Society had the agreeable habit of crowning works of merit, like some of its literary colleagues, this book would emphatically merit that distinction.
Mariner's Mirror
This is a book which will rejoice the heart of every reader...even those without an interest in the technical niceties of horology.†
And from the foreword's author himself (a biographer of Gould) in a commentary on the book...
Jonathon Betts‡
...it is considered [the book] by many (myself included) as the finest horological work of the 20th Century.
† people like me.
‡ Jonathon Betts is the author of the tome ”Marine Chronometers at Greenwich: A Catalogue of Marine Chronometers at the National Maritime Museum”.
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