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Ships, clocks, and stars / Richard Dunn & Rebekah Higgitt.
Penn Museum Library VK567 .D86 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunn, Richard, 1966- author.
- Higgitt, Rebekah, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Longitude--Measurement--History--Exhibitions.
- Longitude.
- Nautical astronomy--History--Exhibitions.
- Nautical astronomy.
- Navigation--History--Exhibitions.
- Navigation.
- Discoveries in science--Great Britain--History--Exhibitions.
- Discoveries in science.
- History.
- Longitude--Measurement.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Subtitle on cover: Quest for longitude
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper Design, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers ; Greenwich, London : in association with Royal Museums Greenwich, 2014.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, July 11, 2014-January 4, 2015. (Title page verso and museum's website)
- Simultaneously published in the UK under title: Finding longitude.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-246) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 006235356X
- 9780062353566
- OCLC:
- 870290422
- Publisher Number:
- 99962337973
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