by Dava Sobel · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007902507
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«Longitude» is Dava Sobel's science history essay on the longitude problem, published by Harper Perennial in paperback (in English).
In the eighteenth century, the longitude problem was the greatest dilemma of navigation: without knowing their east-west position, sailors got lost at sea. The work follows John Harrison, a self-taught clockmaker from Yorkshire, who devoted forty years to building a reliable marine chronometer and claiming the British Parliament's prize against official science.
Tenth anniversary edition (2011), with the subtitle «The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time».
For those who enjoy the history of science, navigation, and biographies of forgotten geniuses.
Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison; Galileo's Daughter, about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste; and The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars about the Harvard Computers.
