Ships, clocks, and stars
Richard Dunn (Author), Rebekah Higgitt (Author), Martin J. Rees (Writer of supplementary textual content), National Maritime Museum (Great Britain) (Host institution), Royal Museums Greenwich (Issuing body), United Technologies Corporation
Offers an illustrated look at the heated competition to discover a method of determining a ship's longitude at sea after the British government passed the 1714 Longitude act, which established a sizable prize for developing a practical method of doing so.-- Source other than Library of Congress
Print Book, English, 2014
Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers ; [Published] in association with Royal Museums Greenwich, New York, NY, Greenwich, London, 2014