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Longitude as a Romance
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2001 Jul 12, 12:54 AM
From: Dan Allen
Date: 2001 Jul 12, 12:54 AM
George Huxtable wrote: As for the Sobel bookling on "Longitude", entertaining though it might be, I think it should be read more as a romance than as a record of fact. I heartily agree. It was good at getting people to think about Timekeeping and Clocks, but it really was too harsh on the Lunar school of thought in order to make Harrison out as such a hero. Dan
