| The time of science is a mathematical conception, symbolized as a unit of measure by clocks and chronometers. |
| The museum currently has thirty-eight complete chronometers and twenty-three chronometer balances. |
| Even chronometers, marine chronometers, the best of them, were good to maybe a 50th of a second or something of that order. |
| And one might think initially they didn't do that because they didn't have the instruments, they didn't have the precise chronometers. |
| Accuracy has a conceptual beauty which was once visible in the look of chronometers and theodolites. |
| Cook kept the chronometers in locked wooden boxes and issued keys to the first lieutenant, the on-board astronomer, and himself. |
