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

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Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the dayand 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 solutiona clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. 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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Subreddit	Title	Date
/r/explainlikeimfive	ELI5: How did the first watchmakers know how long a minute, second, hour, etc. was?	Feb 24, 2016
/r/todayilearned	TIL The US Navy is reinstating celestial navigation due to computer navigation being vulnerable to cyber attacks.	Nov 22, 2015
/r/askscience	How do we know that there is a "Pluto-size ball of solid iron that makes up Earth's inner core"?	Oct 8, 2015
/r/history	Compass - Which era was it first used and for what was it used primarily?	Jun 28, 2015
/r/AskHistory	Book recommendation about the history of time and time keeping?	May 19, 2015
/r/tech	John Harrison's 'Clock B' sets a world record over 250 years after it was designed	Apr 20, 2015
/r/suggestmeabook	My dad never reads fiction. What do you think he'd like? (more about him inside)	Mar 29, 2015
/r/AskReddit	What commonly-told fact is incorrect?	Jan 3, 2015
/r/Watches	[Books]Can we list interesting books about watchmaking and/or general horology?	Dec 16, 2014
/r/booksuggestions	Looking for a non-fiction book concerning geography	Jul 7, 2014
/r/Crossbones	The Longitude Chronometer and what we know about it so far	May 30, 2014
/r/AskReddit	You find yourself 1000 years in the past. You have only the items currently on you. How long do you survive?	May 15, 2014

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