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Time and time again : determination of longitude at sea in the 17th century /

Determination of one's longitude at sea has perplexed sailors for many centuries. The significant uptake of world trade in the 17th and 18th Centuries rendered the increasingly urgent need to solve the 'longitude problem', an issue of strategic national importance. Historical accounts...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: De Grijs, Richard, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2017]
Series:IOP (Series). Release 4.
IOP expanding physics.
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Online Access:Texto completo