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3 unusual facts about Dava Sobel


Longitude prize

Dava Sobel's 1996 bestseller Longitude (ISBN 0-14-025879-5) recounts Harrison's story.

Rupert Gould

The actor Jeremy Irons played him in Longitude, a dramatisation of Dava Sobel's book Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, which recounted in part Gould's work in restoring the chronometers.

Thomas Mercer Chronometers

The story begins with John Harrison, as documented in Dava Sobel's book Longitude and its British television adaptation.



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