Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude [Audiobook] download free by Richard Dunn
- Listen audiobook: Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude
- Author: Richard Dunn
- Release date: 2014/1/6
- Publisher: HARPER DESIGN
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780062353566
- Rating: 7.71 of 10
- Votes: 152
- Review by: Drew Hewitt
- Review rating: 8.41 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/1
- Duration: 3H7M14S in 256 kbps (51 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-13
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, FLAC, MP3, MPEG-4 SLS, OGG, MPEG4, WMA, AIFF (compression CBZ, ZIP, JAR, RAR, AZW4)
- Total pages original book: 255
- Includes a PDF summary of 30 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 21M11S (6 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Inventions & Inventors, Historical Geography, Ships & Shipping, Geographical Discovery & Exploration, History Of Engineering & Technology, Navigation & Seamanship
- Download servers: Uploadable, Uploaded, Google Drive, 4Shared, Nextcloud, Hotfile. Compressed in CBZ, ZIP, JAR, RAR, AZW4
- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 110.89 USD
- Dimensions: 268x327x28mm
- Weight: 2,055g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Not Available
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