The Longitude Act offered rewards of up to £20,000 (3 million dollars) for a method of finding longitude at sea to within half a degree (equivalent to 2 minutes of time) after a six-week voyage to the West Indies. The Act also nominated a number of Commissioners of Longitude, later known as the Board of Longitude, to assess submissions and decide on rewards. They included the Astronomer Royal at Greenwich and other scientific, maritime and political leaders. The Commissioners could also grant smaller sums of money to help bring promising ideas to sea-trial. – Summary of the Longitude Act Use the text above to answer the following. Which inventor would claim the rewards of the Longitude Act by solving the "Longitude Problem?" *

A) Johannes Gutenberg with the invention of the printing press
B) Galileo Galilei with the improvement of the telescope
C) Nicolaus Copernicus with the invention of heliocentrism
D) John Harrison with the invention of the chronometer