Longitude (Sobel 1995) - Weekend Classics

<p>English Podcast starts at 00:00:00</p><p>Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:54:02</p><p>Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:08:49</p><p>Danish Podcast Starts at 01:30:12</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Reference</strong></p><p>Dava Sobel (1995). Longitude: The True Story of the Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Walker Books. <strong>https://www.amazon.in/dp/0802713122</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Longitude - TV movie 2000 - International School History</p><p><strong>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--b0eaKGWwE</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Noiser Podcast - Brief History of Longitude</p><p><strong>https://www.noiser.com/short-history-of/longitude</strong></p><p><br></p><p>‌Youtube channel link </p><p>https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher</p><p>Podcast Website</p><p>https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit</p><p><br></p><p>🎙️ <strong>Welcome to </strong><em><strong>Revise and Resubmit</strong></em><strong>, and to another episode of </strong><em><strong>Weekend Classics</strong></em><strong>!</strong> 📚✨</p><p>Imagine setting sail across an unforgiving ocean, with no land in sight, no reliable way to know your exact position, and a single navigational mistake capable of costing hundreds of lives. Now imagine that the solution to this terrifying problem lies not in the heavens, as the greatest scientists of the age believed, but in the hands of a stubborn clockmaker.</p><p>That is the extraordinary story I discovered in <em><strong>Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time</strong></em>, by <strong>Dava Sobel</strong>, first published in 1995.</p><p>🌊 Sobel, an American science writer celebrated for bringing complex scientific ideas to life, has a particular gift for finding the human drama hidden inside scientific history. In books such as <em>Galileo&#39;s Daughter</em> and <em>The Glass Universe</em>, she explores the people behind remarkable discoveries. Here, she turns her attention to John Harrison, an English clockmaker whose determination challenged the scientific establishment of eighteenth-century Europe.</p><p>🕰️ The problem was deceptively simple to describe and extraordinarily difficult to solve. Sailors could estimate latitude, but longitude at sea remained elusive. Without an accurate way to compare local time with the time at a fixed reference point, ships could lose their bearings, fortunes could disappear beneath the waves, and entire expeditions could end in dis