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" ... "Great Britain in the 1700s lost an entire naval fleet because they couldn't measure longitude," Cahill notes. "So they offered a prize that Sir Isaac Newton was supposed to win. But it turned out to be a clockmaker, John Harrison. We're looking for a clockmaker, someone approaching problems in an entirely different fashion." ... "
" ... 1. Altruism: Every advisor and most “advisors” can claim to be a fiduciary these days. Even if it’s only one of the hats they’re wearing, just about everyone can say, “Yeah, I do that too,” checking a regulatory box. But the true heart of acting as a fiduciary is more about the spirit of the law than the letter. If we are truly putting clients’ needs ahead of our own, ours is more than a job, it’s a helping profession—closer to clergy than clockmaker on a continuum. ... "
" ... Some of the greatest scientific minds of the previous century, including the astronomers Galileo Galilei and Edmond Halley, had already tried and failed. In the end, it was a carpenter and clockmaker with no formal education, John Harrison, who solved the vexing problem - with a clock. He designed a series of very accurate clocks which would tell the time at a fixed reference point, such as London. By comparing that time with their own local time, navigators could tell almost exactly how far east or west of London they had sailed. ... "
" ... Some of the most valued objects of the Renaissance, spectacularly represented in the Met exhibit, were mechanical clocks and watches. God was said to be a master clockmaker, and the universe was his masterpiece. By commissioning astronomical clocks in precious metals, rulers symbolically created the cosmos in microcosm. The clocks represented the mechanical regularity of the universe, a perfect fit for the consistency of their work at the lathe. ... "