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Longitude : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Pr by Dava Sobel (2012, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPerfection Learning Corporation

ISBN-101613835949

ISBN-139781613835944

eBay Product ID (ePID)223745616

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Publication Year2012

SubjectScience & Technology

Publication NameLongitude : the True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific PR

LanguageEnglish

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorDava Sobel

Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography

FormatHardcover

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Intended AudienceElementary/High School

SynopsisAnyone 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. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, 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. "Longitude" is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world., Sobel presents the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of John Harrison's 40-year obsession with building the perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.