Longitude by Dava Sobel
Longitude

Dava Sobel

Longitude

Dava Sobel

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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 e...

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