The Consecrated Eminence: A Millennial in the Archives

The Consecrated Eminence

A Millennial in the Archives Guest post by Avery Farmer '20 When I visited the British Royal Observatory in Greenwich during a vacation in London this year, I was captivated by a series of rooms dedicated to a history of time. Not time, the grand spiritual and scientific setting of our own existence, but humans' attempts in the last 500 years to measure that constant force. On display were indecipherable jumbles of pendulums, springs, and gears, exposed or half-concealed by elegant metal dials, each new model claiming some slight advantage over the last. The placards described innovations like a redesigned spring that made an early […] by Sarah Walden McGowan on May 23, 2018

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