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The best non-fiction I have read in the past 25 years is * Longitude, by Dava Sobel.
by sn41 7y ago
The best non-fiction I have read in the past 25 years is
* Longitude, by Dava Sobel.
- Luc 7y agoI guess it doesn't matter, after all that time, that poor Maskelyne's name gets destroyed for the sake of a good story.
- gomijacogeo 7y agoI preferred this to the Sobel book. More academic, but a lot more technical detail. The Quest for Longitude: The Proceedings of the Longitude Symposium Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts November 4-6, 1993 Hardcover – November, 1996 by William J. H. Andrewes http://www.amazon.com/The-Quest-Longitude-Proceedings-Massachusetts/dp/0964432900 http://www.amazon.com/The-Quest-Longitude-Proceedings-Massac...