[Used Book] Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius … - Dava Sobel [Condition: B]

Author: Dava Sobel

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Publisher: Fourth Estate

Publication year: 1998

ISBN: 9781857025712

Upload date：260623

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Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking. Through Dava Sobel's consummate skill, Longitude will open a new window on our world for all who read it.