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The “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time” is a great scientist biography book. Dava Sobel is the author of this book. Dava Sobel is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her boos include Longitude, about English clockmaker John Harrison and Galileo’s Daughter about Galileo’s daughter Maria Celeste. Longitude is a fascinating history of the development of a mechanical chronometer. Dava lays out the historical background and competing interests.

This book shows that John Harrison was like the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, he was poor hence, self-educated. His vocation was carpentry and his intimate knowledge of wood was employed in his first chronometer. He knew how to build sound grandfather clocks and that experience fed into his first chronometer for seafaring. He resisted the urge to build a better clock before claiming the prize, he would have won the prize outright. To know more about, read this amazing biography book. This book is interesting and easy, so it will engage the readers from start to end of the page. To sum it up, Longitude is an informative book for the readers.

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• Name: Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
• Author: Dava Sobel
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• Language: English
• Genre: Biographies of Scientists, Geography, Engineering Patents and Inventions
• Format: PDF/ePub
• Size: 1 MB
• Page: 191
• Price: Free

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