{"product_id":"longitude-folio-society-2158","title":"Longitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eLongitude 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDava 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Folio Vault","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":55216608411987,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":55421238444371,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1085\/2951\/6883\/files\/2158.jpg?v=1792532664","url":"https:\/\/thefoliovault.com\/products\/longitude-folio-society-2158","provider":"Folio Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}