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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Sobel, Dava.
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Harrison, John, 1693-1776.
Longitude -- Measurement -- History.
Chronometers -- History.
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Longitude [electroni...
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Longitude [electronic resource] : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time / Dava Sobel.
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Sobel, Dava.
New York : Walker, 1995.
Subjects
Harrison, John, 1693-1776.
Longitude -- Measurement -- History.
Chronometers -- History.
Clock and watch makers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=D64091A1-A96D-4E4F-9484-0DCB1F6AD3D2
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ISBN:
9780802779434 (electronic bk.)
0802779433 (electronic bk.)
Description:
1 online resource (130 pages)
Contents:
Imaginary lines -- Sea before time -- Adrift in a clockwork universe -- Time in a bottle -- Powder of sympathy -- Prize -- Cogmaker's journal -- Grasshopper goes to sea -- Hands on Heaven's clock -- Diamond timekeeper -- Trial by fire and water -- Tale of two portraits -- Second voyage of Captain James Cook -- Mass production of genius -- In the Meridian Courtyard.
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The story of mariners' centuries-long search for ways of determining longitude that tells not only of the scientific advances but of the perseverance, pettiness, politics, & interesting anecdotes involved. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking. Through Dava Sobel's consummate skill, Longitude will open a new window on our world for all who read it.
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