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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel Casseroles "like digging in dirt andThe dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day "the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been