Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time - Paperback
by Dava Sobel
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9780802715296ISBN-10:080271529XUPC:9780802715296Book Category:Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Navigation, Science & Technology, InventionsSize:7.38 x 4.66 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCSTR0KS1C
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."
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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury USAISBN-13:9780802715296ISBN-10:080271529XUPC:9780802715296Book Category:Transportation, Biography & Autobiography, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:Navigation, Science & Technology, InventionsSize:7.38 x 4.66 x 0.59 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCSTR0KS1C
Dava Sobel is the bestselling author of Longitude, Galileo's Daughter, and The Planets, coauthor of The Illustrated Longitude, and editor of Letters to Father. She lives in East Hampton, New York.
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