Captain Cook Chronometers - Objectivity 104 

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+Dagmara K it looks like a ripping read.

Well unless a person visits every important museum in the world, travelling exhibitions are the only way most people are able to see notable art works, historical artefacts, etc. I saw artefacts from Pompeii, moon rocks retrieved by Russian spacecraft and Dutch masters at exhibitions in Melbourne years before I had the opportunity to visit those countries.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-43KyoNnVX8g.html - you're welcome :)

Objectivity Oh, yes, how could I have forgotten this episode. Thank you for all you do, and the love you have for it.

Simon Degryse Well, there is not all too much behind it. The practice of using an elongated S roots in roman cursive where the S extended slightly above and below the rest of the line (there were only uppercase letters in Latin). It is mainly a matter of aesthetics and it saves some space horizontically especially with ligatures. The long S is ſtill preſent in nowadays fonts and thus can ſtill be typeſet.

Thank you for the information! I just realised it's the same s they use for the integral symbol too

The "s" inside a word is like an "f," but it is not exactly the same. Only the LEFT part of the horizontal bar is used.

iambiggus The chap is called "Pickersgill", however written with a "long s" because it appears within the name. Compare it to the "round/terminal s" at the end of "James". They were used alongside in those olden days.

The long "s" was commonly used during the 17th and 18th century texts when the "s" was at the beginning or middle of a word. It was fashionable at the time to make as many distinctions as possible between words and characters. Double "s"s would be different, all nouns might be capitalized throughout a sentence, or sometimes just the important ones. Punctuation was all over the place - I mean... literally; (really, literally): Puncutation - was often used to excess! But this was a period where word spellings and typefaces were not very standardized and printers were experimenting with how best to replicate certain character sets. As an example, the "ye" of "Ye Olde" was a printer's trick to substitute the common "y" for the older "thorn" character that looks a bit like a "y." "Ye" was always meant to be pronounced the same as "the." There were also a few different movements at the end of that period to standardize and simplify written English, so the long "s" was mostly eliminated by the middle of the 19th century. There was a trend towards creating a more phonetic spelling system that never completely caught on. Consider also that this was happening at the same time that the American colonies were developing as distinct cultures from England. The same trend that simplified the "s" also dropped the extra "u" from "colour" and made "center" out of "centre."

Thanks for the answer and elaborations :)

588 now, can anyone update this as it goes on?

621 to 1 Oh no wait 622 to 1 XD

899 to 1. Fantastic.

949 to 1 =O Objectivity has some of the highest like:dislike ratios I've ever seen on YT. It's great !

Only 6 dislikes a year and a half later. 1.3k likes.

Brady doesn't wear gloves while handing document because he is not experienced working with them on often, therefore it's safer for the document to expose it to a bit of skin contamination rather than risk of damage it by lack of sense of tact. But for experts and workers the norm is wearing cloves, also notice that now they use latex, not that white ones that are only seen at auctions and snooker now.

You are American, right?

No. Why?

around a minute per year

I was wondering about those particular clocks. Since part of the reason they had so many was to compare them to the K1, I figured they would have kept records.

Water spout is what a tornado forming at sea is called.

I guess a water spout is about the last thing you want to see when you are on a sailing ship.

Unknown, they don't work them so they don't wear out I presume.

They look to be in very good shape (dare I say... ship shape?) including the springs, which I think is the component most likely to be damaged or fail. I didn't imagine they'd wind them, but I admit I let myself get a bit hopeful when they got on the subject. Not at all worth the risk of breaking a spring, really.

Yep. Olde Englifh.

They're slightly different - The s characters aren't crossed like an f is. Why there were two S characters i do not know.

Yes, that's why I'm wondering why he's wearing gloves with that one!

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