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Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Langbeschreibung
Tenth anniversary edition of the bestseller. Dramatic human story of the epic scientific quest for a method to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, "Longitude" is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. "Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy" "New Scientist"
Dava Sobel is an award-winning former science reporter for the New York Times and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life and Omni.
ISBN-13:
9780007214228
Veröffentl:
2005
Erscheinungsdatum:
05.09.2005
Seiten:
183
Autor:
Dava Sobel
Gewicht:
170 g
Format:
198x128x17 mm
Sprache:
Englisch