Longitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Longitude write by Dava Sobel. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Longitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Latitude and Longitude
Latitude and Longitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latitude and Longitude write by Rebecca Aberg. This book was released on 2003. Latitude and Longitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the world...and right in their own backyards.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopaedia Britannica write by Hugh Chisholm. This book was released on 1910. Encyclopaedia Britannica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude
Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude write by Rufus McGaugh. This book was released on 2017-10-20. Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rufus McGaugh knew early on that he wanted to see the world-all of it. And, later on, he did just that.Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude chronicles Rufus's 49 years of travels around the globe to every country in the world. It relates his experiences, both harrowing and humorous, in entertaining and amusing (sometimes even instructive!) vignettes.Rufus, a Vietnam vet who was awarded the Purple Heart in 1970, became a Vietnam vet against the war, got a college degree, and taught social studies at Brownell Middle School in the affluent Detroit suburb of Grosse Pointe for 39 years. During that time-and before and after-he spent his summers, vacations, and retirement fulfilling a life-long dream to travel to every corner of the Earth. He has visited countries near and far, well known and obscure (including the closed regimes of North Korea and Libya). He has met interesting people, seen fascinating sights, and observed unusual events.He has been hassled by the authorities in Russia (twice in one day). He was arrested-and later stalked by a leopard-in Zimbabwe. He met Miss America (well, Miss South Carolina) in Vietnam, outfoxed (or so he thought) a tailor in Hong Kong, and broke both arms bicycling in Cuba.Longitude and Latitude, with Attitude is the unpretentious, often comic, frequently informative chronicle of these and other adventures and misadventures he experienced on his journeys. Other wanderers like him-and armchair travelers everywhere-will be captivated by it. The lively writing is supplemented by more than 50 pictures that inveterate photographer Rufus has taken in the course of his trips.
Brief and Simple Methods of Finding the Latitude and Longitude
Brief and Simple Methods of Finding the Latitude and Longitude - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Brief and Simple Methods of Finding the Latitude and Longitude write by Alfred Challice Johnson. This book was released on 1889. Brief and Simple Methods of Finding the Latitude and Longitude available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
