Longitude
Dava Sobel
History / Non-Fiction
Longitude
by Dava Sobel
—· 209 p
Bestselling Nonfiction Classicreflective
Overview
About
Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer.
Pages
209
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Linguistic complexity
3/5
Moderate
Thematic complexity
3/5
Layered
Rating
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Reader feel
Historical Detail9
Narration8
Scientific Explanation8
Worldbuilding7
Prose7
Pacing7
Emotional depth6
Plot twists5
My journey
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