Sea clocks : the story of longitude /
Story of longitude
Louise Borden ; illustrated by Erik Blegvad.
- London : Greenwich, 2005.
- 48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Presents an illustrated account of eighteenth-century Englishman John Harrison's forty-year quest to create a perfectly accurate sea clock that would allow sailors to measure longitude.
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