CBR13Bingo – Book Club (James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read list) A short history of a scientific problem being solved over the course of decades. One of the biggest problems in seafaring pre-1700 involved the very imprecise methods available for determining longitude. Latitude apparently is fairly easy because lines of latitude as concentric and consistent. Longitude is much more difficult because it requires information contrasted with a fixed point, something much more difficult to acquire in the middle of the ocean. Britain, certainly known for […]
Longitude – Dava Sobel (1997)
Longitude by Dava Sobel