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Перевод: chronometer

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1. This meant either working out very accurate tables of the movements of the moon or devising a chronometer which could keep time for a voyage of months or years without relying on a pendulum that would be disturbed by the rolling of the ship.
2. The Perpetual movement intensely tested and proved under every possible condition throughout the world is indeed worthy of the title Swiss Chronometer, a title much coveted and jealously guarded, awarded by The Controle Official Suisse de Chronometres, only after exhaustive and rigorous tests have been completed.
3. In 1666 Mercator made and presented to Charles II a marine chronometer that "showed the inequality of the sun's motion from the apparent motion" (John Aubrey, q.v.).
4. THE ROLEX DATEJUST CHRONOMETER, MEDIUM SIZE, IN STEEL AND YELLOW METAL.
5. Bonefish Straker reckoned that some Bahamian kids must have stolen the boat as a means of getting home, but we would never know who had wrecked her, only that they had removed a dinghy load of gear including her chronometer, sextant, VHF, barometer, spare sails, lines, fenders, and even the mattress off the starboard quarter-berth.
6. St Augustine did not explain how the mind could be an accurate chronometer for the timing of external events, but as the pioneer of the study of psychological time he stands in the front rank of those who have contributed to the understanding of our sense of time.
7. He checked his GenTech digital chronometer against the dashdial.
8. It was followed about twenty years later, in 1271, by the forecast of a purely mechanical chronometer by Robertus Anglicus ("Robert the Englishman,) in a commentary that he wrote on the Treatise on the Sphere of Sacrobosco.
9. In 1860 he left this company and joined Charles Shepherd of Leadenhall Street, the chronometer and horological instrument-maker and inventor of the electrical clocks used by the Royal Observatory.
10. In rounding Cape Horn, he was driven into a high latitude, and on 19 February 1819 he wrote in his journal, "in latitude 6240" S and longitude per Chronometer 6000' West, Land or Ice was discovered ahead bearing SEbS distant about two leagues, blowing hard gales with flying showers of snow."
11. Progress was slow, but by the mid-eighteenth century success had been achieved in both methods of calculating longitude: the Greenwich astronomers had worked out the tables for the movements of the moon and an English watchmaker, John Harrison, had made a chronometer that kept such perfect time that it could meet the requirements of any sailor.
12. The chronometer confirmed his flying time since the aerial refuelling over Omsk, tallying with the covered distance on the on-board computer.
13. Has anybody got a chronometer on them?