Longitude by Dava Sobel

Longitude

Dava Sobel

148 pages first pub 1995 (view editions) user-added

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring medium-paced
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The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often througho...

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