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Longitude
Title: Longitude
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1216 | Pages: 5.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Longitude
Book Review of Longitude
Sometimes all it takes is one man. One man who believes and endeavors. One man who will go against the grain, no matter the odds. In her book Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time, published by Walker and Co. in 1995 with 184 pages, Dava Sobell portrays the difficulty of cultivating a means with which to accurately measure lines of longitude in …showed first 75 words of 1216 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1216 total…attempted for longitude, such as the wounded dogs; and the inclusion of such shady characters as Maskelyne only seemed to make this book read almost as a story, instead of a historical account.
Many men may have made the chronometer what it is today, but all of these men stood on the shoulders of a man before them. One man. A single man against all odds and all criticism…believing in himself, and his ideas.
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