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Driv'n by the spheres : chronometer inventor, John Harrison, outlasted the bureaucrats of his day Jaffee, Walter W 1988 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 681.113.92
A description of the Society's Harrison clock, with a brief account of the maker Cottingham, E T 1909 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Harrison
John Harrison and his timekeepers / Gould, Rupert T. 1978. Gould, Rupert Thomas, 1978 • PAMPHLET • 4 copies available. 528.282
interpreting : the extraordinary lives of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire /Henrietta Harrison "The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney's two interpreters at that meeting--Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in relations between China and Britain. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars. Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court's ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li's influence as Macartney's interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain. Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers an empathic argument for cross-cultural understanding in a connected world."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327.5104109033
The call of the sea: Peter Monamy, Charles Brooking and the early British marine painters /Charles Harrison-Wallace Catalogue of an exhibition at St. Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, 15 August - 17 October 2009, focusing on Charles Brooking and Peter Monamy, two key figures in the first generation of British marine artists. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.047(26)"17"
John Harrison and his timekeepers / Rupert T. Gould. Gould, Rupert Thomas, 1935. • BOOK • 6 copies available. 528.282
Time restored : the Harrison timekeepers and R.T. "The first biography of polymath Rupert Gould, the man who in the 1920's restored the great 18th century maritime timekeepers by John Harrison."--Provided by the publisher. 2011. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.11092
officers of the Seven Years War : a biographical dictionary of commissioned officers 1748-1763 /Cy Harrison ''Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War provides detailed reference information on over 2,000 commissioned officers of the Royal Navy: all of those whose career as a commissioned officer included the Seven Years War (1756-1763). In addition, those officers commissioned during and after 1748 and who died before 1756 are included. Sourced primarily from some 15,000 original source documents held in the National Archives, the individual entries include the officers pre-commission postings and commissions to ships as well as other naval and civil appointments. Genealogical information such as dates of birth, death, and marriage, and the names and dates of the officer's immediate family are also included for most of the entries. As the first published reference work since 1849 to include this level of detail for all the Royal Navy officers of the period Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years provides unparalleled access to information previously unpublished.''-- Povided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.2/534092241
Expose succint des travaux de MM Harrison et Le Roy, dans la recherche des longitudes en mer et des epreuves Le Roy, Pierre 1768 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 094:528.282
The substance of the reply of Wiliam Harrison, Esq before the select committee of the House of Commons Harrison, William 1814 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
Expose succinct des travaux de MM Harrison et Le Roy, dans la recherche des longitudes en mer, et des Le Roy, Pierre 1768 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:528.282
The celebrated library of Harrison D Horblit esq, removed from Ridgefield, Connecticut : Part 1 : Early 1974 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 5(091):017.2
prisoners of war held at Bermuda, Cape of Good Hope, and Jamaica during the War of 1812 / transcribed by Harrison "This work was transcribed from records of the British Admiralty pertaining to American prisoners of war held at Bermuda, Cape of Good Hope and Jamaica during the War of 1812. Those interned included American marines, merchantmen and sailors."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 327.09/04
An Act for the encouragement of John Harrison to publish and make known his invention of a machine or Great Britain. Laws, statutes etc 1763 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 92Harrison
An Act for the encouragement of John Harrison, to publish and make known his invention of a machine or Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc 1763 • RARE-PAMPH • 1 copy available. 094:342.537
Expose succint des travaux de MM Harrison et Le Roy dans la recherche des longitudes en mer, et des epreuves Le Roy, Julien 1768 • RARE-BOOK • 1 copy available. 094:910.4(261)"1768"
A report of the proceedings of Sir John Colpoys KB, Sir William Bellingham Bart, and John Harrison Esq Royal Hospital for Seamen (Greenwich) 1805 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 094:355.292Greenwich
John Harrison and his marine timekeepers : notes from the Navigation Room in the National Maritime Museum 1970. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 92Harrison
South Georgia : the British Empire's Subantarctic outpost : a synopsis of the history of the Island Matthews, L. Harrison-(Leonard Harrison) 1931 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(99:24)
Penguins, whalers, and sealers : a voyage of discovery Matthews, L. Harrison-(Leonard Harrison) 1978 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 598.45
The Natural history of the elephant seal, with notes on other seals found at South Georgia Matthews, L. Harrison-(Leonard Harrison) 1929 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 599.745.3(99:42)
Harrison's chronometer, No. 4 Harrison, John, • RARE-OVER • 1 copy available. 529
Mulberry : the return in triumph Harrison, Michael 1965 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.816
The Manufacture of lakes and precipitated pigments Harrison, A W C 1930 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 667.622