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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
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Neil Armstrong (foreword by) and
Dava Sobel
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Walker & Co
Publication date
October 1, 2005
Pages
184
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780802714626
ISBN-10
0802714625
Dimensions
0.75 by 7.55 by 5 in.
Weight
0.60 lbs.
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Original list price
$22.00
Other format details
sci/tech
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A tenth-anniversary gift edition of the classic work traces the forty-year endeavor of John Harrison to safeguard financial interests and the lives of countless sailors by building the first chronometer, a mechanical device that would enable effective timekeeping on the sea. By the author of Galileo's Daughter.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
With Neil Armstrong (other contributor) |
from Walker & Co (October 1, 2005)
9780802714626 | details & prices | 184 pages | 7.55 × 5.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $22.00
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.
Large print edition from Isis Large Print Books (January 1, 1998)
9780753150368 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.
About: Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of John Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.
from Walker & Co (October 1, 1995)
9780802713124 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $19.00
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes
Paperback
Reprint edition from Penguin USA (October 1, 1996)
9780140258790 | details & prices | 4.50 × 7.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.30 lbs | List price $13.00
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes
CD/Spoken Word
With Kate Reading (other contributor) |
Unabridged edition from Random House (October 4, 2005)
9780739323786 | details & prices | 5.50 × 5.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $25.95
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.
Cassette/Spoken Word
With Jane Jacobs (other contributor) |
from St Martins Pr (March 15, 1996)
9781559273978 | details & prices | 4.75 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $17.95
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.
About: Describes the forty-year effort of John Harrison to invent the chronometer, the first instrument able to keep accurate time for navigational purposes.
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