Latitude; The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition, by Nicholas Crane
Hard cover photo provided by Pegasus Books
Latitude; The True Story of the World's First Scientific Expedition, by Nicholas Crane
Hard cover photo provided by Pegasus Books
Airdate: October 26, 2021
Award-winning writer and journalist Nicholas Crane has traveled extensively and perhaps this is what drew him to write about one of the world’s greatest scientific expeditions.
His book ‘Latitude; The True Story of the World’s First Scientific Expedition’ follows a group of twelve European adventurer-scientists in the mid-eighteenth century. The team spent years in South America, scaling volcanoes and traversing jungles before they achieved their goal of establishing the exact shape of the Earth by measuring the length of 1 degree latitude at the equator.
Their discovery opened up the “possibility for safe, accurate navigation across the seas” and enabled the accurate accounting of future expeditions.
Author Nicholas Crane appears on Smart Talk Tuesday to share this inspiring true story.
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