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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | Dava Sobel

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British mariners had latitude figured pretty early on, but longitude flummoxed them to the point of shipwrecks and lost lives occurring because they just didn‘t know where they were. This book talks about the efforts to fix longitude and the machinations of the organization created when someone finally did so. If you‘re looking for an excellent, short narrative nonfiction book, look no further. #ReadYourEbooks

CBee

CBee Sounds super interesting 🧐 2w

LeeRHarry I enjoyed this one too. 😊 2w

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kwmg40

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars | Dava Sobel

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I enjoyed this account of the early female astronomers at the Harvard Observatory. Not surprising that they didn't get the salary or the respect they deserved at the time!

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Librarybelle On my to read list! 2mo

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo

Crazeedi I definitely want to read this, adding 1mo

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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History of Time | Rebecca Struthers

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Listening to this book made me think of my granddad, who was a watchmaker. He worked as a Timekeeper for a railroad station located in my small hometown in Kentucky. At the time of his death, when he was 87, we found 5 clocks he was working on in his workshop. There was even a beautiful German cuckoo clock waiting to be delivered back to its owners. This book covered so much material but was so enjoyable. I will end up buying the hard copy.

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DebinHawaii

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars | Dava Sobel

so-so

#JumpStart2024 #ReadAway2024

Not gonna lie, I pushed & skimmed to the end to finish for #SheSaid which makes me sad since the women of the Harvard Observatory were amazing, worked their tails off & have not received all the praise due them. But, by golly this was a slog! There are flashes of greatness & points that made me gasp, tear up or marvel but they were too far in between the data dump of names & dates & things I didn‘t need details on.😖

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DieAReader 👋🏻👋🏻Bye! Bye! 3mo

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vlwelser

The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars | Dava Sobel

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This somehow managed to be incredibly interesting and intensely boring at the same time. That's a unique skill set.

#SheSaid @Riveted_Reader_Melissa

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BkClubCare 😂 3mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m there too at the moment, bought the audiobook hoping that might help….not yet 😂 3mo

TheAromaofBooks Great progress!!! 3mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars | Dava Sobel

Hello #SheSaid!

Sorry for the day late post!

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Bookwormjillk Sorry Melissa, I bailed on this one. I really wanted to like it! 4mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Sorry again for the late post, it‘s been a long January for me. I‘ll be so glad for February. Anyone still plugging along with this book? Finding any kernels to enjoy? 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk Yes, it sounds like you weren‘t alone there. Sorry I couldn‘t be on the journey either with you on this one to encourage or commiserate either. 4mo

AllDebooks I'm late to start. I liked the 1st chapter. I'll keep going as I really enjoyed Sobel's

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AllDebooks I haven‘t started it yet… long month here 🤷‍♀️ 4mo

AllDebooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa oh dear.I hope you have some time to yourself soon x 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @AllDebooks Thank you. I hope so too. Moved my nephew and his girlfriend into my house this month. They are both going to college full time and working full time and were still struggling with rent. Rents are crazy here and their apartment wasn‘t even nice. Then we lost power for a few days with a storm, had frozen pipes to deal with after, and then I came down with Covid.😂 crazy long month. Now just need to help put away all their stuff 😉 4mo

AllDebooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa yikes, that is full-on. How kind of you to take them in. X 4mo

Bookwormjillk @Riveted_Reader_Melissa yikes, hope it gets easier next month! 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Bookwormjillk It will. It was just a crazy one this month.😂 4mo

Smrloomis Wow, hope everyone is finally getting some rest. It‘s tough to study full-time and work full-time too! Rent is insanely high where I live too so I‘m sure they appreciate you taking them in! 4mo

vlwelser I still haven't finished part 2. I'm also recovering from covid. And my company laid off 1650 employees on Friday. One was a direct report. One was a former manager. It's a lot. 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @vlwelser That is a lot, very emotional and heavy…and worse when you are sick on top of everything else. I hope you start feeling well soon, and that everyone you care about and all the others find good work soon 4mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa That is just so many employees. 4mo

ShelleyBooksie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa - are you doing a 2024 non fiction bingo? 3mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @ShelleyBooksie yes, just look under #Nonfiction2024 add template to the end for the blank card 3mo

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LiseWorks

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time | Dava Sobel

January 17 #NewYearNewBooks Sci.Breakthrough @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Perfection 🥳 (edited) 4mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars | Dava Sobel

Hello #SheSaid!

How is everyone doing this weekend? Read picking up any for you? I‘m going to have to skip this one for now and circle back later… moving my nephew and his girlfriend into my house right now so quiet reading time has disappeared for awhile. Hopefully it will settle down again soon and I can catch up again.

vlwelser I'm definitely not finished with part 2 yet. It's interesting but it's also quite boring. It's like a list of activities mare than anything else. Like the author took the facts and added in bits of correspondence. But that 4mo

vlwelser Oops... Is all there is to this. I bet it took an absurd amount of time. A for effort? 4mo

Bookwormjillk I‘m still struggling with this one. I was looking for an audiobook version, but my library doesn‘t have it. I‘ll see how far I can get on kindle tonight. It‘s a shame because the history of science particularly astronomy and physics is one of my favorite subjects, but there just doesn‘t seem to be enough here to make a book. 4mo

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DebinHawaii

Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars | Dava Sobel

#NewYearNewBooks

The January pick for #SheSaid is all about #WomenInScience. The tale of the women Harvard College University hired in the mid-nineteenth century to calculate, interpret & catalogue observation of the stars on glass photographic plates (the glass universe refers to the over 500,000 plates amassed.) They discovered stars, created classification systems & altered the course of astronomy mostly w/o much of the credit they deserved.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Fascinating 💛💛 4mo

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