Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Book by Dava Sobel
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time is a 1995 best-selling book by Dava Sobel about John Harrison, an 18th-century clockmaker who created the first clock sufficiently accurate to be... Wikipedia
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The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the ...
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