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First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
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Longitude, Dava Sobel
- Langue
- Année de publication
- 1999
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- (souple)
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- Titre
- Longitude
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Dava Sobel
- Éditeur
- Fourth Estate
- Publié
- 1999
- Format
- souple
- ISBN10
- 1841153176
- ISBN13
- 9781841153179
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Nonfiction, Thème historique, Histoire, Cartes et voyages, Histoires vraies, Biographies, Géographie & Topographie, Amour, Science, Grande-Bretagne, Vengeance, Navires, XVIIIe siècle, Histoire des sciences, Navigation maritime, Temps, Navigation
- Première publication
- 1995
- Titre original
- Longitude
- Évaluation
- 3,9 sur 5
- Description
- First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.