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 Longitude Dava Sobel • Neil Armstrong (Introduction) HISTORY • 2007 • PAPER • 184 PAGES  E-mail this page  Printer-friendly version
An elegant extended essay on the historically vexing problem of determining longitude and the solution developed by master clockmaker John Harrison. It's a captivating story of marine chronometers, Byzantine 18th-century British politics, and the age of sail.
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