Lost At Sea - The Search for Longitude

Today on Far Future Horizons we present Lost At Sea - The Search for Longitude an episode of the highly acclaimed PBS science documentary series NOVA.

This instalment of NOVA follows the search for the key to navigating the seas. It is based on the best selling book Longitude by Dava Sobel.

Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude, begins with the story of Will Andrewes, as he joins a crew to try out and replicate a typical log and line method of the early 1700s to determine the speed and course of a sailing ship. 

Longitude

Today on Far Future Horizons we are proud to present a docudrama starring Michael Gambon (as John Harrison)  and Jeremy Irons (as Rupert Gould) based on Dava Sobel's best selling book – Longitude.   

In the early 18th century, John Harrison struggles to build a practical marine chronometer for determining longitude (east/west position) at sea. 

Galileo's Battle for the Heavens

Today on Far Future Horizons we commemorate the 450^th anniversary of Galileo’s Birth on February 15^th, 1564 with  a two-hour NOVA documentary special titled "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" which celebrates his life and achievements. Galileo Galilei is the father of modern Astronomy and this documentary is about his epic struggle to get Church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. 

This documentary is based on Dava Sobel's bestselling book, “Galileo's Daughter”, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist—that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.