Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
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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 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. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists for the better part of two centuries when, in 1714, England's parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (£20,000, or approximately $12 million in today's currency) to anyone whose method or device proved successful and reproducible. The scientific establishment throughout Europe -- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton -- had mapped the heavens in it pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, 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" --Cover, p. 2.
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Subjects
Astronomical clocks
Astronomical clocks -- England -- History
Chronometers
Chronometers -- History
Clock and watch makers
Clock and watch makers -- England -- Biography
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Harrison, John
Harrison, John, -- 1693-1776
History
Horology
Longitude
Longitude -- Measurement -- History
Longitude -- Research -- History
Measurement
Research
Astronomical clocks -- England -- History
Chronometers
Chronometers -- History
Clock and watch makers
Clock and watch makers -- England -- Biography
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Harrison, John
Harrison, John, -- 1693-1776
History
Horology
Longitude
Longitude -- Measurement -- History
Longitude -- Research -- History
Measurement
Research
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9780802715296
9781415928707
9780802713124
9781415928707
9780802713124
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Level 9.7, 7 Points
Level 9.7, 7 Points
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1310L
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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 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. The quest for a solution had occupied scientists for the better part of two centuries when, in 1714, England's parliament upped the ante by offering a king's ransom (£20,000, or approximately $12 million in today's currency) to anyone whose method or device proved successful and reproducible. The scientific establishment throughout Europe -- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton -- had mapped the heavens in it pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, 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" --Cover, p. 2.
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Astronomical clocks -- England -- History
Chronometers -- History
Clock and watch makers -- England -- Biography
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography
Harrison, John, -- 1693-1776
Horology
Longitude -- Measurement -- History
Longitude -- Research -- History
Chronometers -- History
Clock and watch makers -- England -- Biography
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Longitude -- Measurement -- History
Longitude -- Research -- History
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Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
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Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time / Dava Sobel ; with a foreword by Neil Armstrong
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time Sobel, Dava.
Longitude [compact disc] : [the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time] / Dava Sobel
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time Sobel, Dava.
Longitude [compact disc] : [the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time] / Dava Sobel
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Longitude
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Chronometers
Clock and watch makers
Harrison, John
History
Horology
Longitude
Measurement
Research
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Clock and watch makers
Harrison, John
History
Horology
Longitude
Measurement
Research
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