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Dava Sobel
187 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780007214464
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publication date: Not specified
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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 e...
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Dava Sobel
187 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780007214464
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Publication date: Not specified
Description
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 e...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings