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Title: never gets to the heart of the solution
Review: A very brief book filled with anecodotes about everything and everyone but the protagonist, Longitude never explains how a lone genius actually solves the problem. Dava Sobel writes poetically and fluidly but NEVER explains how Harrison makes a maritime clock, why it takes him 40 years to build a working model, how the models evolve or what motivated him to do it. Possibly the worst scientific reporting ever.
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