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On its 10th anniversary, a gift edition of this classic book, with a forward by one of history's greatest explorers, and eight pages of color illustrations.   Anyone alive in the eighteeth century would have known that "the logitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the... read more

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Once on a Wednesday excursion when I was a little girl, my father bought me a beaded wire ball that I loved.

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  1. Dava Sobel (Author)
 

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