The Longitude Prize by Dušan Petričić, Joan Dash

The Longitude Prize

Dušan Petričić, Joan Dash

208 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced

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A Robert F. Sibert Honor BookBy the start of the eighteenth century, many thousands of sailors had perished at sea because their captains had no way of knowing longitude, their east-west location. Latitude, the north-south position, was easy enoug...

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