LONGITUDE DAVA SOBEL

pinterestImage: pinterestIn Longitude, DavaSobelchronicles the world's quest to tame time. In 1714, the English Parliament passed the longitudeact. It established the Board of Longitude and offered a prize of 20,000 pounds to anyone who could find a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship's longitude.
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the
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Longitude (book) - Wikipedia
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison, an 18th-century clockmaker who created the first clock sufficiently accurate to be used to determine longitude at sea—an important development in navigation. The book was made into a television series entitled Longitude. In 1998, The Illustrated Longitude
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the
Longitude from Dava Sobel is a fascinating account of how a virtually unknown watchmaker named John Harrison conquered one of the oldest and thorniest problems surrounding the ocean voyages - the problem of accurately measuring longitude-, which stumped even the 4/5Ratings: 51KReviews: 2