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Latitude: How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation
Latitude How American Astronomers Solved the Mystery of Variation
Author: Bill Carter, Bill Carter, Merri Sue Carter, Merri Sue Carter
For more than a century European astronomers grappled with the mystery surrounding a suspected variation in latitude that affected their careful observations. Where the best minds in Europe had failed, an intellectual upstart from America eventually succeeded. In 1891, Seth Chandler, an actuary for an insurance company with no formal education i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781557500168
ISBN-10: 1557500169
Publication Date: 10/2002
Pages: 252
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Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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