Nova - Lost At Sea - The Search For Longitude

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Based on the bestselling book Longitude by Dava Sobel, the program tells the story of how an unknown genius, John Harrison, discovered the key to navigating on the open seas and thus solved one of the thorniest problems of the 1700s.

Although this program is worth watching just to see how the establishment tried to screw the inventors every chance they got, it also ignores evidence that people were using longitude sailing thousands of years ago with star charts.