The longitude problem: history’s deadliest riddle

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Join the Map Men as they tackle the difficult problem of finding longitude. (up / down)

Sailors had long needed an accurate method of determining longitude.  Sadly, the practice of dead reckoning sometimes proved true.

For more information, see:

Longitude: the true story of a lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time” by Dava Sobel

Harrison decoded:  towards a perfect pendulum clock” edited by Rory McVoy & Jonathan Betts