Longitude, paperback/dava sobel

Tenth anniversary edition of the bestseller.

Dramatic human story of the epic scientific quest for a method to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.

Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, }Longitude{ is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.

Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy }New Scientist{.