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Author : T. Kean
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Total Pages : 41 pages
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Download or read book A New and Easy Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea written by T. Kean and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Kean
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)
Download or read book A New and Easy Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea written by T. Kean and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Wales
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Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea written by William Wales and published by . This book was released on 1794 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779433
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book Longitude written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : William Jones (M.D.)
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Total Pages : 52 pages
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Download or read book A Proposal of a New Method for Finding the Longitude at Sea, Or Land written by William Jones (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Watt
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Total Pages : 952 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica: Subjects written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Watt
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Total Pages : 968 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica; Or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature written by Robert Watt and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 952 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Britannica; Or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature. By Robert Watt, M.D. in Two Parts: - Authors and Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katy Barrett
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802070974
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)
Download or read book Looking for Longitude written by Katy Barrett and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1048 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1048 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
