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1 de 1 usuarios la han encontrado útil Engaging drama/documentary of the life-long struggle of John Harrison (played by Michael Gambon) to win the £20,000 prize of the 1714 Longitude Act. The competition was open to anyone who could provide a practicable solution to determining longitude at sea, which was desperately needed for safe navigation. Interwoven into this plot is another story, set over 200 years later, of an equally obsessive clockmaker named Rupert Gould (played by Jeremy Irons). Gould is a retired Navy Commander who painstakingly restores the Harrison clocks, found abandoned in a Greenwich store room, as therapy after coming home from the Second World War. Harrison, a carpenter and self-taught clock-maker, reasoned the simplest answer to the longitude problem was an accurate sea clock that could keep time of the reference place while at sea. From this the distance east-west could be calculated. Regular clocks of the time were sensitive to humidity and temperature, and pendulums don’t work on a rolling ship. Harrison introduced several innovations in his quest to convince Board of Longitude he had solved the problem. In all, he produced 4 sea clocks (called H1 to H4), each smaller and more refined than the last. Unfortunately, the Board was comprised mainly of astronomers, who seemed less interested in Harrison’s clocks and more in preserving the existing use of astronomical methods for navigation. Gambon’s excellent performance of the country carpenter pitched against the scientific establishment lifts the emotions with every triumph, only to dashed on technicalities by the Board. The scenes on board ship are particularly brutal, and compelling viewing for anyone with more than a passing interest in the Royal Navy in the Georgian era. Irons too, puts in a compelling performance of the emotionally fragile Commander Gould, who’s meticulous work and gradual recovery has its own emotional highs and lows. Highly recommended.