Longitude
Douban
ISBN: 9780802715296
Autor/in:
Dava Sobel
Verlag: Walker & Company
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2007
-10
Einband: Paperback
Preis: USD 14.00
Anzahl der Seiten: 208
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
Übersicht
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.
