Longitude

Tenth anniversary edition of the bestseller. Dramatic human story of the epic scientific quest for a method to calculate longitude and the unlikely triumph of an English genius. Full of heroism and chicanery, brilliance and the absurd, "Longitude" is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation and clockmaking. "Sobel has done the impossible and made horology sexy" "New Scientist"

Dava Sobel is the internationally renowned author of 'Longitude' and 'Galileo's Daughter'. She is also an award-winning former science reporter for the 'New York Times' and writes frequently about science for several magazines, including the 'New Yorker', 'Audubon', 'Discover', 'Life' and 'Omni'. She is currently writing a book called 'The Planets' for Fourth Estate. She lives in East Hampton, New York.