Longitude the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
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 se...
| Main Author: | Sobel, Dava. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Walker,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Neil Armstrong
- Imaginary lines
- The sea before time
- Adrift in a clockwork universe
- Time in a bottle
- Powder of sympathy
- The prize
- Cog maker's journal
- The grasshopper goes to sea
- Hands on Heaven's clock
- The diamond timekeeper
- Trial by fire and water
- A tale of two portraits
- The second voyage of Captain James Cook
- The mass production of genius
- In the meridian courtyard.