Biographies & Memoirs
Longitude
Dava Sobel — London : Fourth Estate, 1996
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About this book
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.
Details
- FormatPaperback
- PublisherLondon : Fourth Estate
- Published1996
- SubjectBiographies & Memoirs › Professionals & Academics
- Pages184
- LanguageEnglish
- ISBN-139781857025026
- ISBN-101857025024
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