Time and Time Again: Determination of longitude at seain the 17th Century (IOP

Description: Determination of one's longitude at sea has perplexed sailors for many centuries. The significant uptake of world trade in the 17th and 18th Centuries rendered the increasingly urgent need to solve the 'longitude problem', an issue of strategic national importance. Historical accounts of these efforts often focus almost exclusively on John Harrison's role in 18th-Century Britain. This book starts instead from Galileo Galilei's late-16th-Century development of an accurate pendulum clock, which was first achieved in practice in the mid-17th-Century by Christiaan Huygens in the Dutch Republic. It is primarily based on collections of letters that have not been combined into a single volume before. Extensive introductory chapters on the history of map making, the establishment of the world's reference meridian at Greenwich Observatory, and the rise of the scientific enterprise provide the appropriate context for non-expert readers to fully engage with the book's main subject matter

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EAN: 9780750311953

UPC: 9780750311953

ISBN: 9780750311953

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Item Length: 25.9 cm

Number of Pages: 368 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Time and Time Again: Determination of Longitude at Seain the 17th Century

Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing

Publication Year: 2017

Subject: Astronomy

Item Height: 254 mm

Item Weight: 854 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Professor Richard De Grijs

Series: Iop Expanding Physics

Item Width: 178 mm

Format: Hardcover