The Royal observatory, Greenwich. A glance at its history and work (1900)
Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter), 1851-1928 · London, The Religious tract society · leaf 170
l Institution which is said to have been used byCaptain Cook. Harrisons chronometer was sent ona trial voyage to Jamaica in 1761, and on its returnto Portsmouth in the following year it was found thatits complete variation was under the two minutes forwhich the Government had stipulated. Since… … THE TIME DEPARTMENT 169 A visitor who should make the attempt to com-pare a single chronometer with a standard clockwould probably feel very disheartened when, aftermany minutes of comparison, he had got out itserror to the nearest second, were he told that it washis duty to compare the entire army…
Royal Greenwich Observatory · Astronomy
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