The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by William J. H. Andrewes, William J.H. Andrewes, Dava Sobel

The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

William J. H. Andrewes, William J.H. Andrewes, Dava Sobel

224 pages • 1995

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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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