Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
Sobel, Dava2005
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This is 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.
Main title:
Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time / Dava Sobel ; with an introduction by Neil Armstrong.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Harper Perennial, 2005.
Collation:
xviii, 183 p. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Fourth Estate, 1996.Includes index.Bibliography: p. 179-180.
ISBN:
0007214227 (pbk)
Dewey class:
681.1'18'092527.2
Language:
English
BRN:
1721670