Longitude by Dava Sobel
Longitude

Dava Sobel

Longitude

Dava Sobel

130 pages digital 1995

45 editions

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring medium-paced
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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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