Name: Longitude
Author: Sobel, Dava

Beschreibung

Longitude

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

Tenth anniversary edition of the bestseller. Dramatic human story of the epic scientific quest for a method to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, "Longitude" is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. "Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy" "New Scientist" von Sobel, Dava

Produktdetails

Einband:

Kartoniert

Seitenzahl:

208

Erschienen:

2005-09-05

Sprache:

Englisch

EAN:

9780007214228

ISBN:

0007214227

Verlag:

Harper Collins Publ. UK

Gewicht:

170 g

Auflage:

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Über den Autor

Sobel, Dava

Dava Sobel is an award-winning former science reporter for the New York Times and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including Audubon, Discover, Life and Omni.