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Longitude: Special Anniversary Edition Book
The thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-west position. This is the engrossing story of the clockmaker, John "Longitude" Harrison, who solved the problem that Newton and Galileo had failed to conquer, yet claimed only half the promised rich reward. Read More
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Blackwell
In the tercentenary year of the Longitude Act, Fourth Estate present an anniversary edition of Dana Sobel's bestselling history of an epic scientific quest and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With an introduction by Neil Armstrong.
- 0007559364
- 9780007559367
- Dava Sobel
- 27 February 2014
- Fourth Estate
- Hardcover (Book)
- 208
- Special Anniversary Edition
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