It contains the entire original narrative of Longitude, redesigned to accompany 183 images chosen by William Andrewes- from portraints of every important figure in the story to maps and diagrams, scientifc instruments, and John Harrison's remarkable sea clocks themselves. The Illustrated Longitude brings a new and important dimension to Dava Sobel's celebrated story. Harrison's trials and tribulations during his forty-year quest to win the prize are the culmination of this remarkable story. By contrast, John Harrison imagined and built the unimaginable: a clock that told perfect time at sea, known today as the chronometer. The scientific establishment- from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton- had been certain that a celestial answer would be found and invested untold effort in this pursuit. The largest reward of £20,000- truly a king's ransom- was offered by Britain's Parliament in 1714. To encourage a solution, governments established prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of nations hung on a resolution to the longitude problem. All too often throughout the ages of exploration, voyages ended in disaster when crew and cargo were either lost at sea or destroyed upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. The Illustrated 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. A fully illustrated edition of the international best-seller Longitude. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition.
This copy is bright, tight, white and square. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine.
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