Author: Dava Sobel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." 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 exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea
Author: William Wales
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
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The Means of Finding the Longitude at Sea ... in Four ... Dissertations
Author: Charles GRANT (Viscount de Vaux.)
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Languages : en
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Book Description
Longitude
Author: Dava Sobel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." 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 exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." 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 exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.
The Means of Finding the Longitude at Sea ... in Four ... Dissertations. Second Edition, Etc
Author: Charles GRANT (Viscount de Vaux.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land
Author: Andrew Mackay
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Category : Latitude
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Category : Latitude
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The Means of Finding the Longitude at Sea
Author: Charles Grant vicomte de Vaux
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Category : Longitude
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Longitude
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The method of finding the longitude at sea, by timekeepers: to which are added, Tables of equations to equal altitudes
Author: William WALES (F.R.S.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Languages : en
Pages : 142
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A Proposal of a New Method for Finding the Longitude at Sea, Or Land
Author: William Jones (M.D.)
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Category : Longitude
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Longitude
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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A Practical Method for Finding the Longitude and Latitude of a Ship at Sea, by Observations of the Moon
Author: Robert Waddington
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Category : Geographical positions
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Category : Geographical positions
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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The Theory and Practise of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land. To which are Added Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place and Variation of the Compass, with New Tables
Author: Andrew Mackay
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Languages : en
Pages : 290
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