《经度》讲的是“一个孤独的天才解决他所处时代最大难题的真实故事”。巧的是,当我拿到这本书的时候,也正在思考着这个难题——经度如何测量。我为这个问题已经花了几个月时间,并因此而越发深信经度问题的解决实在是天才之举。久居都市的人也许很难想像“丢失”了经度的海上航行,那正是18世纪的航海 “Longitude” speaks of “a lonely genius to solve the real story of the biggest puzzle of his time.” Coincidentally, when I got this book, is also thinking about this problem - how to measure longitude. I have spent months on this issue, and as a result I have become more and more convinced that the resolution of the longitude issue is indeed a genius move. People living in cities may find it hard to imagine “losing” the longitude of sea voyage, which is exactly the 18th century sea voyage