Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time /
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, nav...
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London :
Fourth Estate,
1996.
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| Online Access: | Free eBook from the Internet Archive Additional information and access via Open Library Kostenfrei |
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