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An exciting clinical adventure from the times of wooden ships and flat iron men, LONGITUDE is filled with heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd. Additionally it is a captivating quick background of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking.
During the fantastic age groups of exploration, "the longitude problem" was the gravest of all scientific challenges. Lacking the capability to determine their longitude, sailors were basically lost at sea as soon as they lost look of land. Ships ran aground on rocky shores; those vacationing well-known routes were easy victim to pirates.
In 1714, England's Parliament offered a huge reward to anyone whose approach to calculating longitude could be proven successful. The clinical establishment--from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton--had mapped the heavens in its certainty of an celestial answer. In stark distinction, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution--a clock that would keep exact time at sea, something no clock had been in a position to do on land. Plus the competition was on....
