Longitude by Dava Sobel

Longitude by Dava Sobel

For centuries, sailors could determine latitude easily but had no reliable way to calculate longitude at sea, causing countless shipwrecks and deaths, until self-taught clockmaker John Harrison spent decades single-handedly developing a marine chronometer precise enough to solve the problem.

Sobel tells Harrison's story as an underdog triumph against the entrenched scientific establishment, which favoured a rival astronomical solution and repeatedly denied him the prize money his invention had rightfully earned, in a compact, gripping account of scientific persistence against institutional resistance.

A bestselling, gripping account of one of history's great scientific problem-solving stories.

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