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Beschreibung
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"
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"
Über den Autor

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.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Sachliteratur
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 200 S.
ISBN-13: 9780007214228
ISBN-10: 0007214227
Sprache: Englisch
Originalsprache: Englisch
Herstellernummer: 034198
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sobel, Dava
Hersteller: Harper Collins Publ. UK
Harper Perennial
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße: 198 x 128 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Dava Sobel
Erscheinungsdatum: 05.09.2005
Gewicht: 0,17 kg
Artikel-ID: 102316844

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