(Mobile library) Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude
❀ Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt ❀
| #881184 in Books | 2014-11-04 | 2014-11-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 12.25 x9.75 x1.00l,.0 | File Name: 006235356X | 256 pages
||18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Greater scope than Sobel’s Longitude|By Steve G|I enjoyed this book. It is a comprehensive look at how we discovered how to determine longitude. Authors Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt offer clear explanations of the methods and tools used. They write in a conversational tone and provide many illustrations and photos. I enjoyed the book a little more than I enjoyed Da|From the Back Cover||A history of one of the greatest nautical discoveries of all time|Three hundred years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure linked with the increasing importance of international trade, the British government
A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind.
Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. ...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude | Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
