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miked10270 · 5 January 2009, 02:40 AM

“In a word, I am satisfy’d that my reader begins to think that the Phonometers, Pyrometers, Selenometers, Heliometers, Barometers, and all the Meters are not worthy to be compar’d with my Chronometer”.

So wrote "Jeremy Thacker", allegedly a Yorkshire Gentleman and Polimath, while suggesting a clock in a vacuum.

Unfortunately, once again the concept of an Intelligent-Yorkshireman is proved to be a myth. As the Times Article:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle5136819.ece

shows, it was in fact John Arbuthnot, a Scot, who came up with the word, and the principle of the Chronometer.

How's that for unashamed jingoism!?

Mike.

5 January 2009, 02:40 AM	#1
miked10270 Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Real Name: N/a Location: N/a Watch: N/a Posts: 55	Chronometer. A fine old Scottish word! “In a word, I am satisfy’d that my reader begins to think that the Phonometers, Pyrometers, Selenometers, Heliometers, Barometers, and all the Meters are not worthy to be compar’d with my Chronometer”. So wrote "Jeremy Thacker", allegedly a Yorkshire Gentleman and Polimath, while suggesting a clock in a vacuum. Unfortunately, once again the concept of an Intelligent-Yorkshireman is proved to be a myth. As the Times Article: http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle5136819.ece shows, it was in fact John Arbuthnot, a Scot, who came up with the word, and the principle of the Chronometer. How's that for unashamed jingoism!? Mike.

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