Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time /
"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 a...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2007.
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