Longitude by Dava Sobel concerns the invention of what?
Longitude (TV series) Longitude (TV series) Longitude is a 2000 TV drama produced by Granada Television and the A&E Network for Channel 4, first broadcast between 2 and 3 January 2000 in the UK on Channel 4 and the US on A&E. It is a dramatisation of the 1995 book of the same title by Dava Sobel. It was written and directed by Charles Sturridge and stars Michael Gambon as clockmaker John Harrison (1693–1776) and Jeremy Irons as horologist Rupert Gould (1890–1948). "Longitude" presents the story of Harrison's efforts to develop the marine chronometer and thereby win the Longitude prize in the 18th
Dava Sobel Dava Sobel Dava Sobel (born June 15, 1947) is an American writer of popular expositions of scientific topics. Her books include "Longitude", about English clockmaker John Harrison, and "Galileo's Daughter", about Galileo's daughter Maria Celeste, and "The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars". Sobel was born on June 15, 1947, in The Bronx, New York City. She graduated from The Bronx High School of Science and Binghamton University. She wrote "" in 1995. The story was made into a television movie, of the same name by Charles Sturridge and Granada Film