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The Quest for Longitude
The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 4-6, 1993
China,
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments,
1996
Hardcover, 237 pages.
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notes:
The history of finding longitude at sea, from about 1500 to 1790 with the development of John Harrison's marine chronometer.
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