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Longitude
2000 · TV series · 125 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Charles Sturridge
The fascinating story of John Harrison who, in the 18th century, believed he could make a clock that would work on board a ship—and so solve the problem of finding longitude at sea.
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> “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time” by Dava Sobel.
Good two-part mini-series that's based on the book (Jeremy Irons, Michael Gambon):
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(TV_series)
Made into a four-part mini-series with Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(TV_series)
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(book)
The mini-series is also a fun watch:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_(TV_series)
The book “Longitude” by Dava Sobel is an excellent telling of this story. And there’s a movie adaptation too.
Sailors worked out a ship's position...
No, that could give them only latitude.
Accurate longitude measurements at sea are a different problem, ultimately solved only by the invention of a precision timepiece that was immune to motion.
There's a great TV miniseries on how this came about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_%28TV_series%29