Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel Casseroles 30 Pursuing a Publishing Career

30 Pursuing a Publishing Career

"like digging in dirt and climbing trees

The God of wonder is waiting to be with you

The late ROGER CONANT was director and curator of reptiles at the Philadelphia Zoo

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel Casseroles 30 Pursuing a Publishing CareerThe 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