Jeremy Thacker
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Who is Jeremy Thacker?
Jeremy Thacker was an 18th-century writer and watchmaker, who coined the word "chronometer" for precise clocks designed to find longitude at sea. He himself created a marine chronometer positioned on gimbals and within a vacuum, but it was a failure. The idea of a vacuum for a marine clock had already been proposed by the Italian clockmaker Antonio Tempora in 1668. Slightly later, John Harrison would successfully build marine chronometers from 1730.
He wrote The Longitudes Examined in 1714.
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