Longitude Uk Edition True Story of a Lone Gen
Dava Sobel
ISBN: | 9781857025026 |
Publisher: | Fourth Estate |
Published: | 19 August, 1996 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
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Longitude Uk Edition True Story of a Lone Gen
Dava Sobel
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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