Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
The story of mariners' centuries-long search for ways of determining longitude that tells not only of the scientific advances but of the perseverance, pettiness, politics, & interesting anecdotes involved. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of John Harris...
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New York :
Walker,
1995.
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Table of Contents:
- Imaginary lines
- Sea before time
- Adrift in a clockwork universe
- Time in a bottle
- Powder of sympathy
- Prize
- Cogmaker's journal
- Grasshopper goes to sea
- Hands on Heaven's clock
- Diamond timekeeper
- Trial by fire and water
- Tale of two portraits
- Second voyage of Captain James Cook
- Mass production of genius
- In the Meridian Courtyard.