An edition of Longitude (1995)

Longitude

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An edition of Longitude (1995)

Longitude

  • 4.28 ·
  • 18 Ratings
  • 59 Want to read
  • 2 Currently reading
  • 22 Have read

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."

Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land.

Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

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Cover of: Longitude
Cover of: Longitude
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
October 30, 2007, Walker & Company
Paperback in English - Reprint edition
Cover of: Longitude
Longitude
September 5, 2005, FOURTH ESTATE (HCOL)
Cover of: Longitude
Cover of: Longitude
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
September 15, 2005, Walker & Company
Hardcover in English
Cover of: Longitude
Longitude
July 1999, ISIS Large Print Books
Paperback in English - Large Print Ed edition
Cover of: Längengrad
Längengrad
May 1, 1998, btb
Paperback in German
Cover of: The illustrated longitude
The illustrated longitude
1998, Walker, Walker & Company
in English
Cover of: Longitude
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
October 1, 1996, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
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Cover of: Longitude

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Library of Congress
QB225.S641995, QB225

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OL7264321M
Internet Archive
longitudetruesto0000sobe_g5j6
ISBN 10
0007214464
ISBN 13
9780007214464
Library Thing
16307
Goodreads
918356

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"Once on a Wednesday excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved."

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