For instance, for a sea theme, the group read Dava Sobel's "Longitude," Herman Melville's "Billy Budd and Sebastian Jungerr's "Perfect Storm".
An sufficiently accurate and simple method for predicting the Moon's motion would have solved the navigational problem of determining a ship's longitude; in Newton's time, the goal was to predict the Moon's position to 2' (two arc-minutes), which would correspond to a 1° error in terrestrial longitude.
"It's one of those shows you want, badly want," said George Gibson, the president of Walker & Company, a publishing house best known for Dava Sobel's "Longitude" and "Galileo's Daughter".
The 268 Series was obtained from trees in the northern part of Kaingaroa Forest (latitude 38°41'S, longitude 176°34'E).
Tungurahua volcano (Latitude 01°28'S; Longitude 78°27'W) is located in the southern portion of the Eastern Cordillera of the Ecuadorian Andes, 140 km south of Quito and 33 km southeast of Ambato, the capital of Tungurahua Province (Figure 1).
The trial was established in 1991 at Shellocks Forest, Dunsandel on the Canterbury Plains, 40 km south of Christchurch, New Zealand (latitude 43°40'S, longitude 172°11'E, elevation 115 m a.s.l).. Soil at the site is free draining, of low fertility and is classified as Pallic Firm Brown soil belonging to the Lismore series (Hewitt 1998).
Stenhouse recorded the ship's position on reaching the open sea as latitude 64°27'S, longitude 157°32'E.
BRCNR is situated on the northern Drakensberg Escarpment, Mpumalanga Province, South Africa (24°40'S longitude, 30°51'E latitude; Figure 1).
Shapley saw evidence for Cepheids in Andromeda long before Hubble did, but refused to believe they could be Cepheids out of a stubborn attachment to his own theories.Mr Johnson's work will surely be compared with "Longitude", Dava Sobel's eye-opening account of the invention of accurate timepieces, which came out in 1996 and which launched the literary genre of science micro-history.
