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Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
Abstract
First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
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Metadata
- Venue
- Choice Reviews Online
- Publisher
- American Library Association
- Published
- 1996-03-01
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 07
- Pages
- 33-3880-33-3880
- ISSN
- 0009-4978 (ISSN-L)
- 1523-8253
- OpenAlex
- W1599482978
- Cited by
- 698
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- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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