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Senest opdateret 19. august

Af Dava Sobel

fra 1996

ISBN: 18-5702-502-4

Kategorier: Historie:Kultur, Skønlitteratur

pris: 100 kr – stand: ★★★★★★

Vægt: 250 gram

First published in 1996, Dava Sobel's story of an epic scientific quest - how to calculate longitude. The thorniest scientific problem of the day had occupied scientists and their patrons for the better part of two centuries until John Harrison dared to imagine a mechanical solution. The story encompasses astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.