A new and easy method of finding the Longitude at Sea, with like accuracy that the Latitude is found
Author : T. KEAN
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Author : T. KEAN
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Author : T. Kean
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Page : 41 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1774
Category : Longitude
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Author : T. Kean
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Page : 41 pages
File Size : 17,15 MB
Release : 1774
Category : Longitude
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Author : Samuel Dunn
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 28,27 MB
Release : 1778
Category : Latitude
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Release : 1710
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Author : William Wales
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Page : 138 pages
File Size : 10,98 MB
Release : 1794
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Author : Thomas Yarrow (Mariner)
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Page : 6 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 1826
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Author : William Jones (M.D.)
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1760
Category : Longitude
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Author : Andrew Mackay
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Page : 476 pages
File Size : 39,34 MB
Release : 1793
Category : Latitude
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Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 33,34 MB
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0802779433
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 in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.