Longitude - Folio Society edition

Longitude

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Longitude - Folio Society edition
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Longitude
Folio Society
Science & Nature

Longitude

Dava Sobel
Edition year 2014
Binding Paper
Weight 0.75 Kg
Pages 168
Dimensions 9 × 6¼ in

Edition details

Longitude by Dava Sobel. Frontispiece and 16 pages of colour plates. Printed endpapers. Bound in paper, printed with a drawing of the rear part of H-3 by John Harrison. 168pp. 9x6¼in.

About the book

Dava Sobel's Longitude tells the story of the eighteenth-century effort to solve one of navigation's greatest problems: accurately determining longitude at sea. At the centre is clockmaker John Harrison, whose extraordinarily precise marine chronometers offered a practical solution. The book combines science, invention and historical rivalry in an engaging account of a discovery that transformed navigation.

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