Who is William Whiston and Hymphrey Ditton from Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time and what is their importance?

William Whiston and Hymphrey Ditton were the creators of the absurd cannon distance method of pinpointing longitude. This method, despite its utter failures, whipped the seafaring community into a frenzy, hoping to find a solution to the problem of Longitude.