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Title: A Story without Science
Review: This easy to read book contains very little information about what the technical problems were that Harrison actually solved. There is not even a single diagram in the entire text.Plenty of exagerated stories of the evil board of longitude, but no technology in a book about technology. Where an attempt is made the author gets it wrong, eg. confusing angles with distances, and stating that the temparature grid of brass and iron worked because the metals were of different lengths (and of course no diagram).It is like being given a fine looking cake with fabulous icing, but when the knife goes in the cake is hollow. The book will appeal to those that like the superficial.Anthony
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