Longitude
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ISBN: 1857025717 / Publisher: Harpercollins Pub Ltd, May 1998
First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude...
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First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
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