Document Details Finding Longitude - How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem:
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- Title: Finding Longitude - How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem
SubTitle: Royal Museums Greenwich - [Catalog of] Ships, clocks and stars: The quest for Longitude - Exhibiton at the National Maritime Museum [2014] - Author: Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Martin Reed[Foreword], Kevin Fewster[Foreword]
- Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York
Keywords: catalog UK-London astronomy clock
Other Keywords: longitude Greewich navigation Maskelyne
ISBN: 978 0 00 752586 7
Language: ENG
Notes: A major scholarly, richly illustrated monograph on the technical and astronomical and navigation problem of determining the longitude at see. Also the 'catalog' of the exhibit of the same name produced and curated by the two authors at the Royal Museums Greenwich in 2014. 7 chapters, extensively illustrated, much of it in color. Extensive references and Index. Published concurrently in hardcover and paperback editions.
Edition: 2014, 1st edition -- Copyright: 2014
Kind: Book
Type: Clock (general)
Geographic area: United Kingdom
Topic: Navigation
Organization: Exhibition
Pages: 255 -- Height in cm: 27
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 19251 - Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers, New York
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