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| 提及的人： | John Harrison |
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| 材料类型： | 传记 |
| 文件类型： | 书 |
| 所有的著者/提供者： |
Dava Sobel; William J H Andrewes |
| ISBN: | 0802713440 9780802713445 |
| OCLC号码： | 38936728 |
| 注意： | Originally published: Longitude. New York : Walker, 1995. |
| 描述： | 216 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| 内容： | Imaginary lines -- Sea before time -- Adrift in a clockwork universe -- Time in a bottle -- Powder of sympathy -- Prize -- Cogmaker's journal -- Grasshopper goes to sea -- Hands on heaven's clock -- Diamond timekeeper -- Trial by fire and water -- Tale of two portraits -- Second voyage of Captain James Cook -- Mass production of genius -- In the meridian courtyard. |
| 责任： | Dava Sobel and William J.H. Andrewes. |
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摘要：
This fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the greatest scientific problem of the eighteenth and three prior centuries: determining how a captain could pinpoint his ship's location at sea. All too often, voyages ended in disaster when crew and cargo were either lost at sea or destroyed upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. Governments established prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. The scientific establishment, certain that a celestial answer would be found, invested untold effort in this pursuit. By contrast, John Harrison built the unimaginable: a clock that told perfect time at sea, known today as the chronometer. Harrison's trials and tribulations during his forty-year quest to win the prize are the culmination of this remarkable story.--From publisher description.
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