Author: Horace Everett WarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This report and its supplement contain scholarly studies of the early works on the prime meridian.
A Forgotten Prime Meridian
Author: Horace Everett WarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This report and its supplement contain scholarly studies of the early works on the prime meridian.
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Author: Colonial Society of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Primarily consists of: Transactions, v. 1, 3, 5-8, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, 32, 34-35, 38, 42-43; and: Collections, v. 2, 4, 9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-31, 33, 36-37, 39-41; also includes lists of members.
Transactions
Author: Colonial Society of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 650
Book Description
Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Author: Colonial Society of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Vols. 1,3,5-8,10-14,17-21,24-28,32,34-35,38,42-43,1892-1956 are its Transactions.
Writings on American History
Author: Zero Degrees
Author: Charles W. J. WithersPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674088816
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian’s location in southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain’s imperial past. Before the nineteenth century, more than twenty-five different prime meridians were in use around the world, including Paris, Beijing, Greenwich, Washington, and the location traditional in Europe since Ptolemy, the Canary Islands. Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved complex problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. Withers guides readers through the navigation and astronomy associated with diverse meridians and explains the problems that these cartographic lines both solved and created. He shows that as science and commerce became more global and as railway and telegraph networks tied the world closer together, the multiplicity of prime meridians led to ever greater confusion in the coordination of time and the geographical division of space. After a series of international scientific meetings, notably the 1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, Greenwich emerged as the most pragmatic choice for a global prime meridian, though not unanimously or without acrimony. Even after 1884, other prime meridians remained in use for decades. As Zero Degrees shows, geographies of the prime meridian are a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of accurate measurement on a global scale, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.
The American Historical Review
Author: John Franklin JamesonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 956
Book Description
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
The Observatory
Author: Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description