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Solving Longitude: The True Story of John Harrison and the Race to Create the Marine Chronometer: How a Self-Taught Clockmaker Defied the Scientific E

by David Finch , Universal History
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798247659587
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 190
  • Original Price: GBP 11.75
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 227 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Military / Naval

For centuries, the world's oceans were a realm of deadly uncertainty. Countless ships and thousands of lives were lost, wrecked upon unseen shores, because sailors could not determine their longitude. The greatest scientific minds of the age, backed by the might of the British astronomical establishment, looked to the heavens for a solution, charting the complex dance of the moon and stars. But the answer would not come from a grand observatory. It came from the workshop of John Harrison, a humble carpenter with an uncanny genius for clockmaking. This is the incredible story of his forty-year obsession to build a perfect timepiece, a 'sea-clock' that could withstand the violent chaos of a ship at sea and keep precise time. In a battle of lone ingenuity against institutional pride, Harrison pitted his revolutionary chronometers against the favored 'lunar distance' method in a series of dramatic sea trials. 'Solving Longitude' is a gripping narrative of rivalry, resilience, and the relentless pursuit of an idea that would conquer the waves, secure an empire, and forever change our understanding of the world. It is the tale of an underdog who dared to challenge the establishment and, against all odds, won.

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