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Dava Sobel and William J. H. Andrews, The Illustrated Longitude. London: Fourth Estate, 1998.
Small quarto, hard cover, dustwrapper, 216 pages, well illustrated.
Very good condition.
'When Dava Sobers Longitude was published to universal acclaim in 1996, readers voiced only one regret: that it was not illustrated. Now, William Andrewes, the man who organized and hosted the Longitude Symposium that inspired her book, has joined Dava Sobel to create a richly illustrated version of her classic story.
'The Illustrated Longitude recounts in words and images the epic quest to solve the thorniest scientific problem of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Throughout the great age of exploration, sailors attempted to navigate the oceans without any means of measuring their longitude. All too often, voyages ended in total disaster when both crew and cargo were captured or lost upon the rocks of an unexpected landfall. Thousands of lives and the fortunes of seafaring nations hung on a resolution.
'To encourage a solution, governments established major prizes for anyone whose method or device proved successful. ...'
