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Longitude

Author : Dava Sobel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802779433
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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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.

Finding Longitude

Author : Richard Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780007525867
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (258 download)

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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.

The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land

Author : Andrew Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land written by Andrew Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theory and Practise of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land. To which are Added Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place and Variation of the Compass, with New Tables

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Author : Andrew Mackay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Practise of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land. To which are Added Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place and Variation of the Compass, with New Tables written by Andrew Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land: to Whic are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place ... by Andrew Mackay, ... in Two Volumes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory and Practice of Finding the Longitude at Sea Or Land: to Whic are Added, Various Methods of Determining the Latitude of a Place ... by Andrew Mackay, ... in Two Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Practical Method for Finding the Longitude and Latitude of a Ship at Sea, by Observations of the Moon

Author : Robert Waddington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Practical Method for Finding the Longitude and Latitude of a Ship at Sea, by Observations of the Moon written by Robert Waddington and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An introduction to the lunar method of finding the Longitude in a ship at sea, etc

Author : Samuel DUNN (Professor of Mathematics.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis An introduction to the lunar method of finding the Longitude in a ship at sea, etc by : Samuel DUNN (Professor of Mathematics.)

Download or read book An introduction to the lunar method of finding the Longitude in a ship at sea, etc written by Samuel DUNN (Professor of Mathematics.) and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Extension of the Double Altitude Problem, to Finding the Longitude as Well as the Latitude at Sea

Author : Edward Riddle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Book Synopsis An Extension of the Double Altitude Problem, to Finding the Longitude as Well as the Latitude at Sea by : Edward Riddle

Download or read book An Extension of the Double Altitude Problem, to Finding the Longitude as Well as the Latitude at Sea written by Edward Riddle and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Finding Longitude: How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem

Author : National Maritime Museum
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007525877
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Book Synopsis Finding Longitude: How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem by : National Maritime Museum

Download or read book Finding Longitude: How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem written by National Maritime Museum and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended for viewing on colour device. Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's “Ships, Clocks and Stars” exhibition.

A practical introduction to finding the Longitude at sea by lunar observations; also, to spherics and nautical Astronomy, etc

Author : Thomas EVANS (Lieut. R.N.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis A practical introduction to finding the Longitude at sea by lunar observations; also, to spherics and nautical Astronomy, etc by : Thomas EVANS (Lieut. R.N.)

Download or read book A practical introduction to finding the Longitude at sea by lunar observations; also, to spherics and nautical Astronomy, etc written by Thomas EVANS (Lieut. R.N.) and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ships, Clocks, and Stars

Author : Richard Dunn
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062357174
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)

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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.

The Theory and Practice of the Longitude at Sea

Author : Samuel Dunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 ( download)

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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:

A New Treatise on the Practice of Navigation at Sea

Author : William Thoms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book A New Treatise on the Practice of Navigation at Sea written by William Thoms and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Lost Art of Finding Our Way

Author : John Edward Huth
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072820
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Art of Finding Our Way written by John Edward Huth and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, and sleds of early navigators for whom paying close attention to the environment around them was, quite literally, a matter of life and death. Haunted by the fate of two young kayakers lost in a fog bank off Nantucket, Huth shows us how to navigate using natural phenomena—the way the Vikings used the sunstone to detect polarization of sunlight, and Arab traders learned to sail into the wind, and Pacific Islanders used underwater lightning and “read” waves to guide their explorations. Huth reminds us that we are all navigators capable of learning techniques ranging from the simplest to the most sophisticated skills of direction-finding. Even today, careful observation of the sun and moon, tides and ocean currents, weather and atmospheric effects can be all we need to find our way. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 specially prepared drawings, Huth’s compelling account of the cultures of navigation will engross readers in a narrative that is part scientific treatise, part personal travelogue, and part vivid re-creation of navigational history. Seeing through the eyes of past voyagers, we bring our own world into sharper view.

The Mariner's Latitude and Longitude Ready-Computer, Or a Newly Invented Set of Simple Formulæ for Finding the Latitude ... and the Longitude ... Also an Improved Method of Working a Day's Work at Sea, Etc. (Appendix. Taylor's Sexagesimal Table, Improved and Extended.).

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Author : Thomas BEVERLEY (Mathematician.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Mariner's Latitude and Longitude Ready-Computer, Or a Newly Invented Set of Simple Formulæ for Finding the Latitude ... and the Longitude ... Also an Improved Method of Working a Day's Work at Sea, Etc. (Appendix. Taylor's Sexagesimal Table, Improved and Extended.). by : Thomas BEVERLEY (Mathematician.)

Download or read book The Mariner's Latitude and Longitude Ready-Computer, Or a Newly Invented Set of Simple Formulæ for Finding the Latitude ... and the Longitude ... Also an Improved Method of Working a Day's Work at Sea, Etc. (Appendix. Taylor's Sexagesimal Table, Improved and Extended.). written by Thomas BEVERLEY (Mathematician.) and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Supplement to the Treatise for Finding the Longitude

Author : Robert Waddington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Supplement to the Treatise for Finding the Longitude written by Robert Waddington and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking for Longitude

Author : Katy Barrett
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1802070974
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Looking for Longitude written by Katy Barrett and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why make a joke out of a niche and complex scientific problem? That is the question at the heart of this book, which unearths the rich and surprising history of trying to find longitude at sea in the eighteenth century. Not simply a history on water, this is the story of longitude on paper, of the discussions, satires, diagrams, engravings, novels, plays, poems and social anxieties that shaped how people understood longitude in William Hogarth’s London. We start from a figure in one of Hogarth’s prints – a lunatic incarcerated in the madhouse of A Rake’s Progress in 1735 – to unpick the visual, mental and social concerns which entwined around the national concern to find a solution to longitude. Why does longitude appear in novels, smutty stories, political critiques, copyright cases, religious tracts and dictionaries as much as in government papers? This sheds new light on the first government scientific funding body – the Board of Longitude – established to administer vast reward money for anyone who found a means of accurately measuring longitude at sea. Meet the cast of characters involved in the search for longitude, from famous novelists and artists to almost unknown pamphleteers and inventors, and see how their interactions informed the fate of longitude’s most famous pursuer, the clockmaker John Harrison.