Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel

208 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction biography history science informative inspiring medium-paced
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The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that 'the longitude problem' was the th...

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