by Dava Sobel · Fourth Estate · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781857025712
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«Longitude» is Dava Sobel's work of historical and scientific popularisation, published by Fourth Estate in paperback (192 pages, in English).
It reconstructs the challenge that baffled navigators for centuries: how to calculate longitude at sea. Dava Sobel follows John Harrison, a self-taught clockmaker who devoted forty years to building a reliable marine chronometer, while official science sought the answer in the sky. It interweaves biography, navigation, clockmaking and astronomy.
Published on 4 June 1998 with the subtitle «The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time».
Aimed at readers of popular science and history, especially those interested in the technical challenges of navigation and in the biographies of inventors.
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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.
