Author: Sir George EverestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arc measures
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India, Bounded by the Parallels of 18° 3' 15"; 24° 7' 11"; & 20° 30' 48"
Author: Sir George EverestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arc measures
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India
Author: Sir George EverestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arc measures
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
An Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India, Bounded by the Parallels of 18° 3' 15"; 24° 7' 11"; & 29° 30' 48" Conducted Under the Orders of the Honourable East-India Company
Author: The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Account of the Measurement of Two Sections of the Meridional Arc of India
Author: Mapping an Empire
Author: Matthew H. EdneyPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226184862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly
Geographers
Author: Geoffrey MartinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474226655
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from all parts of the world, and include famous names as well as those less well known, including explorers, independent thinkers and scholars. Each paper describes the geographer's education, life and work and discusses their influence and spread of academic ideas. Each study includes a select bibliography and a brief chronology. The work includes a general index, and a cumulative index of geographers listed in volumes published to date. Published under the auspices of the International Geographical Union.
Report of the Superintendent ... Showing the Progress of the Work
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Annual Report of the Director
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Quest for the True Figure of the Earth
Author: Michael Rand HoarePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351883305
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
In the 1730s two expeditions set out from Paris on extraordinary journeys; the first was destined for the equatorial region of Peru, the second headed north towards the Arctic Circle. Although the eighteenth century witnessed numerous such adventures, these expeditions were different. Rather than seeking new lands to conquer or mineral wealth to exploit, their primary objectives were scientific: to determine the Earth's precise shape by measuring the variation of a degree of latitude at points separated as nearly as possible by a whole quadrant of the globe between Equator and North Pole. Although such information had consequences for navigation and cartography, the motivation was not simply utilitarian. Rather it was one theme among many in an intellectual revolution in which advances in mathematics paralleled philosophical strife, and reputations of the living and the dead stood to be elevated or destroyed. In particular the two expeditions hoped to prove the correctness of Isaac Newton's prediction that the Earth is not a perfect sphere, but flattened at the poles. In this study, the 'Figure of the Earth' controversy is for the first time comprehensively explored in all its several dimensions. It shows how a largely neglected episode of European science, that produced no spectacular process or artefact - beyond a relatively minor improvement in maps - nevertheless represents an almost unique combination of theoretical prediction and empirical method. It also details the suffering of the two teams of scientists in very different extremes of climate, whose sacrifices for the sake of knowledge rather than colonial gain, caught the imagination of the literary world of the time.