Title: The Quest for Longitude
First published: 1996
Description: The Quest for Longitude is a book for students and for teachers, for collectors and for scholars, and for the thousands of people who, having enjoyed Sobel's Longitude, desire a well-illustrated reference that describes in detail the many fascinating devices and the intriguing characters who, by solving the ancient problem of finding longitude at sea, changed the world forever. 250 illustrations, 120 in color.
Subjects: Longitude, Congresses, Horology, Measurement, History, Long Now Manual for Civilization
People: John Harrison (1693-1776)
LC classification: QB225 .L66 1993