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Recommended by The Map Room.
Noticed: 2008-01-23
Started: 2008-03-09
Finished: 2008-03-12

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Longitude
Dava Sobel

A fairly light but informative history of the British Longitude Prizes, focused on the development of the marine chronometer. I read the illustrated version, which I thought added a lot.

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