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NARRATIVE HISTORY

Longitude

by Dava Sobel · 1995

★★★★ 4/5 · ALLO'S PICK
The story of how John Harrison solved the greatest scientific challenge of his era: finding longitude at sea. A perfect short history of obsession, patience, and institutional resistance.
Allo's take
The model for popular science history. Sobel tells a technical story as a human drama and makes you care desperately about the answer.
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