Dava Sobel.
DAVA SOBEL
LONGITUDE: BIOGRAPHY OF JOHN HARRISON (1995)
John Harrison was an 18th century carpenter and clockmaker whose invention of the marine chronometer revolutionised navigation and greatly reduced the risks of long distance sea travel.
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Dava Sobel (born 1947) is an American author, whose work deals with scientific topics in a way that is intelligible to the ordinary reader. In addition to her book on John Harrison, she has written books on Gallileo’s daughter, and on the 16th century astronomer Copernicus. Dava Sobel enjoys chasing solar eclipses, of which she has seen eight. She describes them as ‘the closest thing to witnessing a miracle’.
