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Longitude The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

Dava Sobel

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific di...

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Huberman Lab

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Huberman Lab

Andrew Huberman praised the title as an essential, accessible read that required no technical background, highlighting its clear storytelling of the historic quest for accurate sea navigation through timekeeping. He recommended it as a compelling science story about discovery, noting its engaging narrative about the development of maritime clocks.

Highly Recommended

Episode: Robert Greene: A Process for Finding & Achieving Y...

The book Longitude was recommended as a science book that tells a story of discovery. The story centers around the discovery of time keeping devices at sea.

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And one of the books was the book Longitude which is a wonderful story about discovery of time keeping devices at sea.

Episode: Charting the Architecture of the Universe & Human...

Andrew Huberman praised the book as an essential, accessible read on the development of accurate timekeeping for navigation.

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the book longitude ... it's an incredible book ... doesn't require any science or technical background to read

StarTalk Radio

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StarTalk Radio

The book, which was a bestseller, was discussed in the context of the longitude problem and how John Harrison's chronometer solved it, ultimately giving Britain global dominance.

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You've got another book that you just published, The Glass Universe, about the women at the Harvard College Observatory.

— Episode: The Stars That Guide Us, with Nainoa Tho...

Episode: The Stars That Guide Us, with Nainoa Thompson

The book, which was a bestseller, was discussed in the context of the longitude problem and how John Harrison's chronometer solved it, ultimately giving Britain global dominance.

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You've got another book that you just published, The Glass Universe, about the women at the Harvard College Observatory.

Longitude.

So tell me, could you just summarize for everyone what the longitude problem is?

which of course is still available.

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