Books
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Longitude | Dava Sobel | 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 day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive … | OL265465W |
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The marine chronometer | Rupert Thomas Gould | This book describes a history of clocks and watches, with emphasis on their use at sea for determining longitude. It traces the technical development in time-keeping instruments from Sun-dials and s… | OL4527468W |