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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Author: Dava Sobel
Cover: cover
Pages: 180
List Price: $11.95
Published by Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0140258795
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Acknowledgments....................................................vii
1. Imaginary Lines...................................................1
2. The Sea Before Time..............................................11
3. Adrift in a Clockwork Universe...................................21
4. Time in a Bottle.................................................34
5. Powder of Sympathy...............................................41
6. The Prize........................................................51
7. Cogmaker's Journal...............................................61
8. The Grasshopper Goes to Sea......................................74
9. Hands on Heaven's Clock.........................................88
10. The Diamond Timekeeper.........................................100
11. Trial by Fire and Water........................................111
12. A Tale of Two Portraits........................................126
13. The Second Voyage of Captain James Cook........................138
14. The Mass Production of Genius..................................152
15. In the Meridian Courtyard......................................165
Sources............................................................177
Index..............................................................181
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