Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude

by Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Richard Dunn

A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve "the longitude problem," the question of how to determine a ship's position at sea--and one that changed the history of mankind. Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship's position at sea. The incredible, illustrated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006235356X
• ISBN13: 9780062353566
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 4.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 10.6" x 12.9"