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Title: Not the best longitude book
Review: I read "The Quest for Longitude" before I read this book. "The Quest for Longitude" is a MUCH better book about John Harrison and the work he did to develop an accurate clock which could be used shipboard. The Quest for Longitude has many more illustrations and goes into detail on the clocks as well as the people involved. It's a really good tale and deserves better than Sobel's efforts. If you're interested in the story of finding longitude shipboard, get "The Quest for Longitude" instead of this book.
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