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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the main difference in measuring longitude and latitude?
2. What advantage did the magnetic variation method have over astronomical approaches at determining longitude?
3. What was the official title of the monetary award for solving the longitude problem?
4. What unusual occurrence helped in early navigation at sea?
5. What was the name of the Portugese ship described in Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time that ran into a Spanish fleet?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Huygens patent in 1675.
2. What was the Longitude Act of 1714?
3. What were the problems with William Whiston's proposal for determining longitude?
4. In 1530, Flemish astronomer Gemma Frisiusm wrote that the clocks of his day "provided no problem to those who traveled." In reality, what were the problems with clocks of his day for travel?
5. Compare Newton's thoughts about the solution of the longitude problem at the beginning of Chapter 6: The Prize to his thoughts at the end of the chapter.
6. What was the result of Hooke and Huygens not producing a successful clock that worked at sea?
7. In Chapter 2: The Sea Before Time, what happened to Sir Clowdisley's voyage?
8. In 1740, the Centurion set sail for the South Pacific without Harrison's clock. What might have been different about the voyage if they would have taken the clock? Why?
9. What was the result of the Whiston-Ditton proposal?
10. What did the Longitude Act establish?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When the Board of Longitude established a large monetary prize, many inventors came forward with ideas on how to solve the problem. In an essay, analyze whether or not the monetary award associated with the longitude prize helped to spur ideas for solving longitude or created a setback in time wasted having to consider crackpot schemes.
Essay Topic 2
Not knowing how to determine longitude caused devastating human and economic consequences. In an essay, describe what the human and economic consequences were, citing examples from the text.
Essay Topic 3
What role did elitism play in the quest for a clock based solution to longitude?
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