The Quest for Longitude: Ships, Clocks, and Stars by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt

The Quest for Longitude: Ships, Clocks, and Stars

Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt

256 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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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 ...

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