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Longitude by Dava Sobel

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Feb 23, 08

bookshelves: history, important
Read in January, 2003

No book of history parallels Sobel's Longitude. The majesty with which she develops the potentially uninspiring tale of how we learned to measure the imaginary lines spanning our globe has set a high bar. Concise, eloquent and human, this book should coax a smile from even the most ahistorical.

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