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Author : Richard Dunn
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Genre : Discoveries in science
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Book Rating : 523/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ships, Clocks, and Stars by : Richard Dunn
Download or read book Ships, Clocks, and Stars written by Richard Dunn. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Dunn
Release : 2014-11-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 174/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ships, Clocks, and Stars by : Richard Dunn
Download or read book Ships, Clocks, and Stars written by Richard Dunn. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of eighteenth-century invention and competition, commerce and conflict, this is a lively, illustrated, and accurate chronicle of the search to solve “the longitude problem,” the question of how to determine a ship’s position at sea—and one that changed the history of mankind. Ships, Clocks, and Stars brings into focus one of our greatest scientific stories: the search to accurately measure a ship’s position at sea. The incredible, illustrated volume reveals why longitude mattered to seafaring nations, illuminates the various solutions that were proposed and tested, and explores the invention that revolutionized human history and the man behind it, John Harrison. Here, too, are the voyages of Captain Cook that put these revolutionary navigational methods to the test. Filled with astronomers, inventors, politicians, seamen, and satirists, Ships, Clocks, and Stars explores the scientific, political, and commercial battles of the age, as well as the sailors, ships, and voyages that made it legend—from Matthew Flinders and George Vancouver to the voyages of the Bounty and the Beagle. Featuring more than 150 photographs specially commissioned from Britain’s National Maritime Museum, this evocative, detailed, and thoroughly fascinating history brings this age of exploration and enlightenment vividly to life.
Author : Richard Dunn
Release : 2014
Genre : Longitude
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Book Rating : 867/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Finding Longitude by : Richard Dunn
Download or read book Finding Longitude written by Richard Dunn. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's exhibition "Ships, Clocks and Stars: The Quest for Longitude". 300 years ago, amidst growing frustration from the naval community and pressure from the increasing importance of international trade, the British government passed the 1714 Longitude Act. It was an attempt to solve one of the most pressing problems of the age: how to determine a ship's longitude (east-west position) at sea. With life-changing rewards on offer, the challenge captured the imaginations and talents of astronomers, skilled craftsmen, politicians, seamen and satirists. This beautifully illustrated book is a detailed account of these stories, and how the longitude problem was solved. Highlights of the book include: * Foreword by the fifteenth Astronomer Royal, Martin Rees. * Specially commissioned photographs of the National Maritime Museum's collection. * A new description of the collaborations and conflicts in a tale of technical creativity, scientific innovation and hard commercialism. From the same publisher as Dava Sobel's Longitude, Finding Longitude tells a new story of one of the great achievements of the Georgian age, and how it changed our understanding of the world.
Author : Geoff McNamara
Release : 2009-04-24
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 62X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Clocks in the Sky by : Geoff McNamara
Download or read book Clocks in the Sky written by Geoff McNamara. This book was released on 2009-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated by long pauses. These may outnumber conventional radio pulsars by a ratio of four to one. Geoff McNamara ends by pointing out that, despite the enormous success of pulsar research in the second half of the twentieth century, the real discoveries are yet to be made including, perhaps, the detection of the hypothetical pulsar black hole binary system by the proposed Square Kilometre Array - the largest single radio telescope in the world.
Author : National Maritime Museum
Release : 2014-07-10
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 877/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Finding Longitude: How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem by : National Maritime Museum
Download or read book Finding Longitude: How ships, clocks and stars helped solve the longitude problem written by National Maritime Museum. This book was released on 2014-07-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recommended for viewing on colour device. Official publication of the National Maritime Museum's “Ships, Clocks and Stars” exhibition.
