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Nicholas Crane on Latitude

Nicholas Crane is interviewed about his new book, Latitude

Nicholas Crane

Nicholas Crane, welcome to Aspects of History. Many congratulations on the book. We had a few questions for you. Why did you decide to write Latitude now? It’s an irresistible mix of human fortitude, science and exploration, a story for our times. To what extent could...

Scientific Struggle: The Search for Latitude

Measuring the earth was not only mathematically challenging, but a physical feat too.

Nicholas Crane

The Search for Latitude Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral lay unconscious on the mountainside. ‘I fell down’, he wrote later, ‘and remained a long time without sense or motion; and, as I was told, with all the appearances of death.’ The year was 1737 and the...