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An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship’s precise longitude at sea.

A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the...
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An illustrated history of an eighteenth-centuury British act of parliament and the heated race to find a ship’s precise longitude at sea.

A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the...
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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9780062357175
  • Publication Date: 4 Nov 2014
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM