Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (1789-1975)Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs (1789-1975)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
Book Description
Pan American Institute of Geography and History
Author: United States. Congress. House. Foreign AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Geodesy? What's That?
Author: Irene K. FischerPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595363997
Category : Earth
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Geodesy (the measurement of the size and shape of the earth), fascinating since the time of Erathosenes, became a basic science for the space program. Irene Fischer was a leader in the construction of the World Geodetic System (has an Earth reference ellipsoid named in her honor) when it was still being done by surveyors, piecing together terrestrial, gravitational and astronomical data. By the 1970s, satellite geodesy and marine geodesy were just coming into their own. Using her career, Fischer revels in explaining how the science unfolded, and how misunderstandings occur across scientific fields, e.g., why the "standard ocean" and the geoid do not easily translate across the fields of oceanography and geodesy. Her account should appeal to those writing the history of women in science. Government science, too, is less well studied than academic science even though some fields, such as geodesy, were always government led. Fischer provides food for thought, as well, to those who claim to study the management of science in bureaucratic settings different from those of industry or academia. Peppered among these themes are Fischer's solutions to historical mysteries such as why Columbus' used a figure for the size of the earth's circumference that was so much smaller than Erastothenes' or Posidonius' (with the added benefit of making it easier to persuade his patrons).
Pan American Institute of Geography and History
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Inter-American AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Considers H.J. Res. 746, to authorize increase in U.S. contribution to Pan American Institute of Geography and History.
Publications
Author: Canada. Earth Physics BranchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Geographers
Author: Patrick H. ArmstrongPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474226795
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
An annual collection of studies on major contributors to the development of geography and gepgraphical thought, Patrick H. Armstrong is Adjunct Associate Professor, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. Geoffrey Martin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus (Geography)at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven, and Archivist of the Association of American Geographers.
Publications
Author: International Federation for DocumentationPublisher:
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Category : International agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
World Mapping Today
Author: Bob ParryPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110959445
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
Book Description
Bibliography of Publications on the Languages of the World: Europe and USSR
Author: United States. Army Map Service. Library. Book and Periodical BranchPublisher:
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Category : Languages, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description