Author: Samuel DunnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Theory and Practice of the Longitude at Sea
Author: Samuel DunnThe Theory and Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. With an Introduction on Trigonometrical Calculation
Author: John Radford YOUNGLongitude
Author: Dava SobelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802779433
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
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.
A Guide Book to the Local Marine Board Examination. The ordinary examination ... Third edition
Author: Thomas Liddell AinsleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The New Practical Navigator
Author: John Hamilton MooreA New Universal Dictionary of the Marine
Author: William BurneyPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
A Catalog of the Books Belonging to the Charleston Library Society
Author: Charleston Library Society (Charleston, S.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 600
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