ASTRONOMICAL MINDS by Ted Gerrard

 

Synopsis of Astronomical Minds

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SYNOPSIS OF ASTRONOMICAL MINDS

 

Astromincal Minds - The True Longitude Story

- The Royal African Company & the slave trade
- Greenwich Observatory & the longitude dispute
- Edmond Halley & Isaac Newton's secret invention
- The Paramore Mutiny & the 1707 Shovell Disaster
- The Longitude Prize deception &
- The Christopher Wren blackmail cipher

 

 

A hitherto untold true story of English 17th century scientific infighting and political intrigue which was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Negro slaves and resulted in the infamous 'Shovell' disaster of 1707 and loss of 2000 English seamen. Isaac Newton's unknown secret invention of 1696 - Edmond Halley's determination of longitude on the high seas in 1699 - Christopher Wren's 1714 blackmail cipher - and a great deal more packed into 268 pages.

 

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