Dava Sobel, I believe. It is the suprisingly fascinating story of how the problem of measuring longitude at sea was solved. It involves a lot of interesting historical characters I never had any idea were focusing on this problem. I swear it is very cool and a fast read. If you don't think you'll like reading it, definitely see the miniseries that was made based on the book; you can get it on Netflix.
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Date: 2009-05-12 03:19 am (UTC)