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Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude

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 | #978733 in Books |  2014-11-04 |  2014-11-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  12.25 x9.75 x1.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| Greater scope than Sobel’s Longitude|By Steve G|I enjoyed this book. It is a comprehensive look at how we discovered how to determine longitude. Authors Richard Dunn and Rebekah Higgitt offer clear explanations of the methods and tools used. They write in a conversational tone and provide many illustrations and photos. I enjoyed the book a little more than I enjoyed Dav

A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind.

Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. T...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude   |  Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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