Astronomical minds : the true longitude story /
Gerrard, Ted.
Broadford : Samos,
2007.
"The Royal African Company & the slave trade; Greenwich Observatory & the longitude dispute; Edmond Halley & Isaac Newton's secret invention; The Paramore mutiny & the 1707 Shovell disaster; The longitude prize deception & the Christopher Wren blackmail cipher".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742.
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727.
Longitude
Astronomy.