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Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest: the search for the solution of how to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius.
This text is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
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