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1. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
During the great age of exploration, the "longitude problem" was the gravest of scientific challenges. Without the ability to determine longitude, ... More
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2. The Illustrated Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel, William J H Andrewes
To meet reader demand, here is an illustrated version of a universally acclaimed work published in 1995. 110 color and 73 b&w illustrations. Ties in ... More
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3. The Man Who Made Time Travel
by Kathryn Lasky, Kevin Hawkes (Illustrator)
This dramatic picture-book biography tells the story of John Harrison, an obscure 18th-century clock maker who envisioned a way to measure longitude ... More
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4. The illustrated longitude
by Dava Sobel, William J. H. Andrewes
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5. Full Meridian of Glory: Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth
by Dr. Paul Murdin
The Paris Observatory was founded, in part, to determine and measure the Paris Meridian. In the 17th and 19th centuries, the French government ... More
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6. Cartographic Fictions: Maps, Race, and Identity
by Karen Piper
Maps are stories as much about us as about the landscape. They reveal changing perceptions of the natural world, as well as conflicts over the ... More
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7. Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
by Peter Jones
Before global positioning systems, modern map-making--even before America was America--the concept of longitude was just a dream. Without its ... More
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8. Latitude and Longitude
by Rebecca Aberg
All it takes are a few coordinates to locate Bear Cave, the international Date Line, and the equator in this lively introduction to the lines that ... More
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9. Latitude & Longitude
by Brian Williams
The titles in this handsome new series provide a lively, easy to understand history of time and our gradual comprehension, measuring and recording of ... More
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10. Longitude by Wire: Finding North America
by Richard Stachurski
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11. Latitud y Longitud
by Rebecca Aberg
- Simple, illustrated maps offer practice in using coordinates to find particular places. - Features close-up views of important lines of longitude ... More
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13. Where on Earth?: Understanding Latitude and Longitude
by Robert A. Rutherfurd
Covers basic geographic concepts. Skill-sequenced lessons with student reading material, diagrams, vocabulary exercises, activities, worksheets, and ... More
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15. Sea Clocks: The Story of Longitude
by Louise Borden
John Harrison, an Englishman with no scientific training, worked for nearly 40 years to design a clock that could keep accurate time while at sea. ... More
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16. Longitude: Illustrated Edition
by Dava Sobel
List of all editionsLongitude, Dava Sobel's no.1 bestseller, is the elegant biography of the lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his times. With ... More
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18. Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory: His Contribution to the Quest for Longitude
by Nick Kollerstrom, Nicholas Kollerstrom
List of all editionsIn this engaging piece of detective work, Nicholas Kollerstrom has combined historical research with computer analysis to investigate long-unanswered ... More
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20. The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull and Captain Thomas James of Bristol in Search of the North-West Passage - Vol II
by Miller Christy
Volumes 88 89 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1894) describe the search for a North-West Passage.
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21. The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a Northwest Passage, in 1631-32: With Narratives of the Earlier Northwest Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Bafl
by Thomas James, Luke Foxe, Henry Gellibrand
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22. The Method of Finding the Longitude at Sea: By Time-Keepers: To Which Are Added, Tables of Equations to Equal Altitudes. More Extensive and Accurate Than Any Hitherto Published. by William Wales, ...
by William Wales
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the ... More
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24. Is Anybody Up?
by Ellen Kandoian
Delicate watercolor illustrations and a simply written text show young children how morning comes at the same time for everyone who lives in the same ... More
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25. A Narrative of the Proceedings Relative to the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea; By Mr. John Harrison's Time-Keeper; Subsequent to Those Published in the Year 1763.
by John Harrison
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the ... More
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