03054cam a2200385 4500 593354230 TxAuBib 20220528120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780802779434 0802779433 B003WUYE66 Amazon d64091a1-a96d-4e4f-9484-0dcb1f6ad3d2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 456929 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Sobel, Dava. Longitude [Libby eBook] : The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1729kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<b>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."</b><br /> 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.<br /> <i><br /></i><i>Longitude</i> 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. Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Geography. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-27 20:00:02. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/D64/091/A1/Longitude9780802779434.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D64091A1-A96D-4E4F-9484-0DCB1F6AD3D2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/D64/091/A1/Longitude9780802779434.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D64091A1-A96D-4E4F-9484-0DCB1F6AD3D2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/2183-1/D64/091/A1/Longitude9780802779434.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=D64091A1-A96D-4E4F-9484-0DCB1F6AD3D2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXGID