The Problem of the Earth's Shape from Ne
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Albert C. Lewis
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Sobel's recent bestseller Longitude [3] brought to a wide public the account of a major scientific problem of the 18th century, the accurate determination of time, and hence of longitude, while at sea. John Greenberg presents another 18th-century