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Longitude
Author | : Dava Sobel |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802779434 |
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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 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 community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
The Illustrated Longitude
Author | : Dava Sobel,William J. H. Andrewes |
Publsiher | : Paw Prints |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-10-08 |
Genre | : Chronometers |
ISBN | : 1439559325 |
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A new illustrated edition of the best-selling Longitude chronicles the tale of the eighteenth-century inventor John Harrison, who created the chronometer and, in the process, saved thousands of lives and great fortunes. Reprint.
Wireless Longitude
Author | : George Durno Cowie,U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,Engelhardt August Eckhardt |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 60 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Longitude |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112046985278 |
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World Longitude Determinations
Author | : U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey,Clarence Herbert Swick |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1931 |
Genre | : Longitude |
ISBN | : PSU:000071906973 |
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The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land
Author | : Andrew Mackay |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1801 |
Genre | : Latitude |
ISBN | : NLS:B900054886 |
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Determination of the Difference of Longitude Between Washington and Paris
Author | : United States Naval Observatory |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Longitude |
ISBN | : UOM:39015080004115 |
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A Practical Method for Finding the Longitude and Latitude of a Ship at Sea by Observations of the Moon
Author | : Robert Waddington |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1763 |
Genre | : Geographical positions |
ISBN | : UOM:39015077739558 |
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The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land to Whic are Added Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place by Andrew Mackay in Two Volumes
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1793 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : IBNN:BN000606921 |
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