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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Tác giả chính: Sobel, Dava
Định dạng: eBook
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: London : Fourth Estate, 1996.
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