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Author : John French
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Perfect Discovery of the Longitude at Sea written by John French and published by . This book was released on 1715 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779433
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Longitude written by Dava Sobel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 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 solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude 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.
Author : Joan Marie Galat
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781455616374
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Discovery of Longitude, The written by Joan Marie Galat and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific discovery changes the world! Discover the fascinating story behind one of the most important changes to nautical navigation in this nonfiction book for young readers. More than 300 years ago, explorers wandered the seas using unreliable maps. What they needed to know was the longitude of their locations, but for that they needed accurate time keeping. Unfortunately, no accurate source of time measurement at sea existed. In 1714 the British government decided to offer a reward to anyone who could solve the problem. Learned men and great thinkers alike tried unsuccessfully to work out a solution. They declared it unsolvable! Carpenter John Harrison was intrigued; he thought he might have a solution. He worked for years to design a clock that functioned accurately at sea, even though no one believed he could do it. Even after his timepiece was demonstrated effective at sea, he was still not acknowledged for his ingenious solution. It took many years and intervention by the king to grant Harrison the recognition and reward he deserved for solving the problem of how to accurately track longitude and for winning the British government prize. The book offers a detailed map of the world at that time and includes the advancements in the use of longitude since then.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sotheran's Price Current of Literature written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Dunn
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Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Theory and Practice of the Longitude at Sea written by Samuel Dunn and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Borden
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ISBN 13 : 9781422393048
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Sea Clocks written by Louise Borden and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years ships had been sailing to places far & near without really knowing where they were! Sailors knew how to measure latitude, their location north or south of the equator, but they could not measure longitude, their location east or west of their home port. The key to solving this problem lay in devising a clock that could keep absolutely accurate time while at sea, unaltered by rough water or weather conditions. John Harrison (1693-1776), an Englishman, worked for more than 40 years to create a perfect clock. Harrison won recognition for his work in 1773. This beautiful book takes the reader through the drama, disappointments, & successes that filled Harrison¿s quest to invent the perfect sea clock. Ages 7-10. Illus. Reinforced binding.
Author : Louise Borden
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ISBN 13 : 9781906367107
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Sea Clocks written by Louise Borden and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Harrison worked tirelessly for over 40 years to create a perfect clock, so that sailors could accurately work out their location at sea. Illustrated throughout, Borden's story highlights the drama, disappointments and successes that filled Harrison's quest to invent the perfect sea clock.
Author : Leonard George Carr Laughton
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mariner's Mirror written by Leonard George Carr Laughton and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Sotheran Ltd
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bibliotheca Chemico-mathematica written by Henry Sotheran Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dunn
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ISBN 13 : 9780007525867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Finding Longitude written by Richard Dunn and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition "Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude". 300 years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure from the increasing importance of international trade, the British government passed the 1714 Longitude Act. It was an attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems of the age: how to determine a ship's longitude (east-west position) at sea. With life-changing rewards on offer, the challenge captured the imaginations and talents of astronomers, skilled craftsmen, politicians, seamen and satirists. This beautifully illustrated book is a detailed account of these stories, and how the longitude problem was solved. Highlights of the book include: * Foreword by the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees. * Specially commissioned photographs of the National Maritime Museum's collection. * A new description of the collaborations and conflicts in a tale of technical creativity, scientific innovation and hard commercialism. From the same publisher as Dava Sobel's Longitude, Finding Longitude tells a new story of one of the great achievements of the Georgian age, and how it changed our understanding of the world.
Author : Richard Dunn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062357174
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Ships, Clocks, and Stars written by Richard Dunn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind. Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible, illustrated volume reveals why longitude mattered to seafaring nations, illuminates the various solutions that were proposed and tested, and explores the invention that revolutionized human history and the man behind it, John Harrison. Here, too, are the voyages of Captain Cook that put these revolutionary navigational methods to the test. Filled with astronomers, inventors, politicians, seamen, and satirists, Ships, Clocks, and Stars explores the scientific, political, and commercial battles of the age, as well as the sailors, ships, and voyages that made it legend—from Matthew Flinders and George Vancouver to the voyages of the Bounty and the Beagle. Featuring more than 150 photographs specially commissioned from Britain’s National Maritime Museum, this evocative, detailed, and thoroughly fascinating history brings this age of exploration and enlightenment vividly to life.
Author : Andrew Kenneth Johnston
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ISBN 13 : 1588344916
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Time and Navigation written by Andrew Kenneth Johnston and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to know where you are, you need a good clock. The surprising connection between time and placeais explored inaTime and Navigation- The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There, the companion book to the National Air and Space Museum exhibition of the same name. Today we use smartphones and GPS, but navigating has not always been so easy. The oldest "clock" is Earth itself, and the oldest means of keeping time came from observing changes in the sky. Early mariners like the Vikings accomplished amazing feats of navigation without using clocks at all. Pioneering seafarers in the Age of Exploration used dead reckoning and celestial navigation; later innovations such as sextants and marine chronometers honed these techniques by measuring latitude and longitude. When explorers turned their sights to the skies, they built on what had been learned at sea. For example, Charles Lindbergh used a bubble sextant on his record-breaking flights. World War II led to the development of new flight technologies, notably radio navigation, since celestial navigation was not suited for all-weather military operations. These forms of navigation were extended and enhanced when explorers began guiding spacecraft into space and across the solar system. Astronauts combined celestial navigation technology with radio transmissions. The development of the atomic clock revolutionized space flight because it could measure billionths of a second, thereby allowing mission teams to navigate more accurately. Scientists and engineers applied these technologies to navigation on earth to develop space-based time and navigation services such as GPS that is used every day by people from all walks of life. While the history of navigation is one of constant change and innovation, it is also one of remarkable continuity. Time and Navigation tells the story of navigation to help us understand where we have been and how we got there so that we can understand where we are going.
Author : Great Britain. Commissioners of Longitude
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Tables Requisite to be Used with The Nautical Ephemeris written by Great Britain. Commissioners of Longitude and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JOHN R. EASTMAN
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book astronomical and meteorological observations made at the united states naval observatory during the year 1862 written by JOHN R. EASTMAN and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles GRANT (Viscount de Vaux.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Means of Finding the Longitude at Sea ... in Four ... Dissertations. Second Edition, Etc written by Charles GRANT (Viscount de Vaux.) and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
