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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (origineel 1995; editie 2005)

door Dava Sobel (Auteur), Neil Armstrong (Voorwoord)

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Biography & Autobiography. Science. Nonfiction. Geography. HTML: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 wor… (meer)

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Lid:	Chica3000
Titel:	Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Auteurs:	Dava Sobel (Auteur)
Andere auteurs:	Neil Armstrong (Voorwoord)
Info:	Walker Books (2005), Edition: ANNIVERSARY EDITION, 192 pages
Verzamelingen:	Jouw bibliotheek, Aan het lezen, Verlanglijst, Te lezen, Gelezen, maar niet in bezit, Favorieten
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Trefwoorden:	non-fiction-to-read

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Lengtegraad : het ware verhaal van een eenzaam genie dat het grootste wetenschappelijke probleem van zijn tijd oploste door Dava Sobel (1995)

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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. (

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P.S.Dorpmans | Sep 10, 2016 |

Well written, interesting subject.
You really feel sorry for Harrison! (

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Ms. Sobel, a former science reporter for The New York Times, confesses in her source notes that ''for a few months at the outset, I maintained the insane idea that I could write this book without traveling to England and seeing the timekeepers firsthand.'' Eventually she did visit the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, where the four clocks that James Harrison constructed are exhibited.
She writes, ''Coming face with these machines at last -- after having read countless accounts of their construction and trial, after having seen every detail of their insides and outsides in still and moving pictures -- reduced me to tears.''
Such is the eloquence of this gem of a book that it makes you understand exactly how she felt.

toegevoegd door bewogenlucht | bewerkThe New York Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (Jan 1, 1997)

Here's a swell little book that tells an amazing story that is largely forgotten today but that deserves to be remembered.

It is the story of the problem of navigation at sea--which plagued ocean-going mariners for centuries--and how it was finally solved.

It is the story of how an unknown, uneducated and unheralded clockmaker solved the problem that had stumped some of the greatest scientific minds. And it is the story of how the Establishment of the 18th Century tried to block his solution.

The essential problem is this: In the middle of the ocean, how can you tell where you are? That is, how can you tell how far east or west of your starting point you have gone?

toegevoegd door smasler | bewerkLos Angeles Times, Lee Dembart (Nov 24, 1995)

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Auteursnaam	Rol	Type auteur	Werk?	Status
Sobel, Dava	—	primaire auteur	alle edities	bevestigd
Altena, Ernst van	Vertaler	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd
Armstrong, Neil	Voorwoord	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd
Dilla Martínez, Xavier	Vertaler	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd
Ernst van Altena	Vertaler	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd
Reading, Kate	Verteller	Secundaire auteur	sommige edities	bevestigd

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Lengtegraad : het ware verhaal van een eenzaam genie dat het grootste wetenschappelijke probleem van zijn tijd oploste

Oorspronkelijke titel

Longitude : the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time

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Lengtegraad

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1995

2005 (new edition with foreword by Neil Armstrong)

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Ptolemy

Christopher Columbus

Galileo Galilei

Jean Dominique Cassini

Christiaan Huygens

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London, England, UK

Greenwich, London, England, UK

University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK

Paris, France

Belangrijke gebeurtenissen

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Invention of chronometer

Verwante films

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Longitude (2000 | TV | Charles Sturridge | IMDb)

Motto

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When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. --Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

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For my mother,
Betty Gruber Sobel,
a four-star navigator
who can sail by the heavens
but always drives by way of Canarsie.

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Once on a Wednesday excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved.

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Ackerman, Diane

O'Brian, Patrick

Buckley, William F., Jr.

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Biography & Autobiography. Science. Nonfiction. Geography. HTML: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 wor

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