Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

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Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude

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PBS | Air Date: October 6, 1998
Summary: Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude focuses on how mariners found their way on the open sea before John Harrison invented the chronometer. The episode shows some of the many ingenious methods ancient mariners used to know where they were on the open seas. Methods such as Land and Air, and Sea and Wave are explored.
Genre(s): News, Documentary, Science

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