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British Longitude Act
<i>Ships, Clocks & Stars: The Quest for Longitude</i> Opens at the Folger Library
March 18, 2015
Washington, DC— For centuries, longitude (east-west position) was a matter of life and death at sea. Ships that went off course had no way to re-discover their longitude.
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