183 pages
English language
Published May 16, 2007 by Harper Perennial.
Longitude
the story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time Stranger than -- 3
by Dava Sobel
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This is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest - the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.
Subjects
- Clock and watch makers
- Biography
- Astronomical clocks
- History
- Horology
- Longitude
- Research
Places
- England