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Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian
Charles W. J. Withers
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| #1351879 in Books | HARVARD | 2017-03-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.30 x1.10 x6.10l, | File type: PDF | 336 pages | HARVARD||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Verbose beyond belief|By TWMiller|A lot of words, not much info. Many 50+ word sentences. None of which touched on measurement accuracy. Some facts are of historical interest, but it was hard for me to get interested in this book asit was more politically rather than scientifically oriented. Plus, who edited this book? I can't believe anyone except the author. I gave up 20%||Charles Withers raises fundamental questions about themes of great contemporary relevance: the ways in which competing local and national interests can ever be reconciled around themes of urgent technological and political concern, and the very question of wha
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 I...
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