Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time

Longitude

The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time

1995 • 208 pages

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Average rating4.1

15

An enjoyable little popular retelling of the search for longitude. Interesting and compellingly told. Some of the prose is a bit novel and I had to re-read a few sentences to get the meaning. Overall, quite nice.

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