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Many things they sawe with us as mathematicall instruments, sea compasses... spring clocks that seemed to goe of themselves - and many other things we had - were so strange unto them, and so farre exceeded their capacities to comprehend the reason and meanes how they should be made and done, that they thought they were rather the workes of gods then men.

Thomas Harriot

Spring, Men, Sea

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Born: 1560
Died: July 2, 1621
Occupation: Astronomer
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