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Recounts how John Harrision discovered the concept of longitude in the 18th century, thus making the waters safe for navigation.
Based on the bestselling book Longitude by Dava Sobel, the program tells the story of how an unknown genius, John Harrison, discovered the key to navigating on the open seas and thus solved one...
6 de oct. de 1998 · NARRATOR: William Hogarth's etching shows a pack of Longitude Lunatics searching for solutions within their asylum walls. Finding longitude, in the public's mind, had become the work of...
19 de jul. de 2020 · The problem was navigation by sea—how to know where you were when you sailed beyond the sight of land - establishing your longitude. While the gentry of the 18th Century looked to the stars for the answer, an English clockmaker, John Harrison, toiled for decades to solve the problem.
6 de oct. de 1998 · 18th century British clock maker and carpenter John Harrison invents a marine chronometer that allows ships to calculate longitude while at sea, preventing numerous shipwrecks, some of them involving the British Navy.
The problem was navigation by sea — how to know where you were when you sailed beyond the sight of land — the finding of your longitude. While the gentry of the eighteenth century looked to the stars for the answer, an English clock maker, John Harrison, toiled for decades to solve the problem.
Lost at Sea—The Search for Longitude. Program Overview. NOVA chronicles the seventeenth-century journey to determine longitude. In 1714, following a maritime disaster, British...
