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Ships, Clocks, and Stars

The Quest for Longitude

Ships, Clocks, and Stars( )
Author: Dunn, Richard
Higgitt, Rebekah
ISBN:978-0-06-235717-5
Publication Date:Nov 2014
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $39.99
Book Description:

A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind.

Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible,...
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