Longitude

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Дава Собел. Longitude

Longitude. Dava Sobel

Table of Contents

Introduction by NEIL ARMSTRONG

1. Imaginary Lines

2. The Sea Before Time

3. Adrift in a Clockwork Universe

4. Time in a Bottle

5. Powder of Sympathy

6. The Prize

7. Cogmaker’s Journal

8. The Grasshopper Goes to Sea

9. Hands on Heaven’s Clock

10. The Diamond Timekeeper

11. Trial by Fire and Water

12. A Tale of Two Portraits

13. The Second Voyage of Captain James Cook

14. The Mass Production of Genius

15. In the Meridian Courtyard

Sources

Index

Acknowledgments

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About the Author

Praise

Also by the Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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For my mother, Betty Gruber Sobel, a four-star navigator who can sail by the heavens but always drives by way of Canarsie.

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13. The Second Voyage of Captain James Cook

14. The Mass Production of Genius

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