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100 1 _aSobel, Dava,
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245 1 4 _aThe illustrated longitude /
_cDava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bWalker,
_c[1998]
264 4 _c©1998
300 _a216 pages :
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_c26 cm
336 _astill image
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337 _aunmediated
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500 _aOriginally published: Longitude. New York : Walker, 1995.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aImaginary lines -- Sea before time -- Adrift in a clockwork universe -- Time in a bottle -- Powder of sympathy -- Prize -- Cogmaker's journal -- Grasshopper goes to sea -- Hands on heaven's clock -- Diamond timekeeper -- Trial by fire and water -- Tale of two portraits -- Second voyage of Captain James Cook -- Mass production of genius -- In the meridian courtyard.
520 _aThis fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often, voyages ended in disaster when crew and cargo were either lost at sea or destroyed upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. Governments established prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. The scientific establishment, certain that a celestial answer would be found, invested untold effort in this pursuit. By contrast, John Harrison built the unimaginable: a clock that told perfect time at sea, known today as the chronometer. Harrison's trials and tribulations during his forty-year quest to win the prize are the culmination of this remarkable story.--From publisher description.
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590 _aIllustrated version of Dava Sobels bestselling biography of John Harrison
600 1 0 _aHarrison, John,
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650 0 _aChronometers
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650 0 _aClock and watch makers
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700 1 _aAndrewes, William J. H.,
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700 1 _aSobel, Dava.
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