Deva Sobel
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Okay, so we know that's a three-hour difference, 45 degrees of longitude.
And if you look on the map, I think you'll see that's about right.
And to actually get an exact position, your clock has to be extremely accurate.
I mean, within a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second a day.
They agreed to put it on a boat, but they just sent it to Portugal.
So not making the huge transatlantic voyage.
And then it turned out that he was right.
And you can imagine how that affected the captain, everybody on the crew.
That was just, how did you do that?
And how he had done it was with that clock.
And the whole crew of the ship he was on, they're all ready to stand up for him.
It's not what everybody was expecting, but he's not a crank.
And Harrison is there with his clock.