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Dava Sobel: Longitude (Paperback, 2007, Walker & Company) 4 stars

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession …

Artful Account of a Straightforward Story

3 stars

I found the problem here fascinating, but the solution pretty straightforward. I enjoyed the internal politics and the look at the lives of famous scientists, but I didn't get a lot of a sense of how Harrison clock was different.

It feels like his first idea to address a problem worked, and then he kept improving it for the rest of his life. But I'm not sure what scientific adversity he faced or how he solved his problems.