The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea
Author | : William Wales |
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Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1794 |
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Author | : William Wales |
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Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1794 |
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Release | : 1794 |
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Author | : Dava Sobel |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2010-07-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0802779433 |
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone 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.
Author | : Andrew Mackay |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1793 |
Genre | : Latitude |
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Author | : William Wales |
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Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1800 |
Genre | : Longitude |
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Author | : William Wales |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
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Release | : 2016-05-23 |
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ISBN | : 9781358777967 |
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Author | : William WALES (F.R.S.) |
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Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1800 |
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Author | : Thomas Yarrow (Mariner) |
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1826 |
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Author | : William Wales |
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Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2017-09-22 |
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ISBN | : 9783337327828 |
The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1794. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Author | : T. Kean |
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Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : Longitude |
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