Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
$19.81
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2005
Summary
The tenth anniversary edition of the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. With a new Foreword by the celebrated astronaut Neil Armstrong.
‘Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy – no mean feat’ New Scientist
Anyone alive in the 18th century would have known that ‘the longitude problem’ was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day – and had been…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780007214228 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0007214227 |
| Author: | Dava Sobel |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | HarperPerennial |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 10th |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2005 |
| Weight: | 160g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Dava Sobel has written a gem of a book…one of the best reads for the non-scientific writing to come along for many a moon.” Financial Times “A true life thriller, jam-packed with political intrigue, international warfare, personal feuds and financial skullduggery.” Daily Mail “Rarely have I enjoyed a book as much as Dava Sobel’s Longitude. She has an extraordinary gift of making difficult ideas clear.” Daily Telegraph
Dava Sobel
Dava Sobel is the author of the international bestseller, Longitude, the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist Galileo’s Daughter, The Planets, A More Perfect Heaven, And the Sun Stood Still, and The Glass Universe, and co-author of The Illustrated Longitude. She is the recipient of the Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board, the Bradford Washburn Award, the Kumpke-Roberts Award from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, and a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other honors. A former New York Times science reporter and current editor of the “Meter” poetry column in Scientific American, she lives on Long Island.
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