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Longitude
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
Jeremy Thacker: Watchmaker, who coined the word chronometer for precise clocks designed to find longitude at sea. He himself created a marine chronometer positioned on gimbals and within a vacuum, but it was a failure.
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