(Read now) Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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| #9273 in Books | Baker and Taylor | 2007-11-05 | 2007-10-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.42 x.65 x4.60l,.45 | File Name: 080271529X | 208 pages | Great product!
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Mighty companion to "drawing The Line" by Edwin Dnason and "Mason & Dixon" by Thiomas Pynchon:|By Clifford L. Baker|I first read the Danson book, thinking this was the book Mark Knopfler based his "Sailing to Philadelphia" on. Afterwards I learned it was the Pynchon book that birthed the song. Longitude offers descriptive history of clocks and astronomy as two methods for fin|.com |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 clockm
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 c...
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