TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sobel,Dava
TI  - Longitude
SN  - 1857025717 
U1  - 526.6209 S677L 1998 
PY  - 1998///
CY  - London
PB  - Fourth Estate Ltd
KW  - Longitude Measurement History
KW  - Harrison, John, 1693-1776
N2  - First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking
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