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The Illustrated Longitude - Dava Sobel, William J.H. Andrewes

The Illustrated Longitude

The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2003
Walker & Co (Verlag)
978-0-8027-7593-1 (ISBN)
CHF 26,15 inkl. MwSt
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The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often throughout the ages of exploration, voyages ended in disaster when crew and cargo were either lost at sea or destroyed upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution to the longitude problem. To encourage a solution, governments established prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. The largest reward of GBP20,000 - truly a king's ransom - was offered by Britain's Parliament in 1714. The scientific establishment - from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton - had been certain that a celestial answer would be found and invested untold effort in this pursuit. By contrast, John Harrison imagined and built the unimaginable: a clock that told perfect time at sea, known today as the chronometer. Harrison's trials and tribulations during his forty-year quest to win the prize are the culmination of this remarkable story.
The Illustrated Longitude brings a new and important dimension to Dava Sobel's celebrated story. It contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, redesigned to accompany 183 images chosen by William Andrewes - from portraints of every important figure in the story to maps and diagrams, scientifc instruments, and John Harrison's remarkable sea clocks themselves. Andrewes's elegant captions and sidebars on scientific and historical events tell their own story of longitude.

Dava Sobel is the author of the best-sellers Longitude and Galileo's Daughter, and the editor and translator of Letters to Father. She lives in East Hampton, New York. William J. H. Andrewes is a museum consultant specializing in the history of scientific instruments and time measurement. He is the editor of The Quest for Longitude and lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.7.2014
Zusatzinfo color illustrations throughout
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 229 x 254 mm
Gewicht 886 g
Themenwelt Literatur Zweisprachige Ausgaben Deutsch / Englisch
Natur / Technik Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe Schiffe
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Naturwissenschaften
Technik Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
ISBN-10 0-8027-7593-4 / 0802775934
ISBN-13 978-0-8027-7593-1 / 9780802775931
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