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Zero degrees : geographies of the Prime Meridian /
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 diffe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- One line to rule the world
- Geographical confusion. "Absurd vanity" : the world's prime meridians before c.1790 ; Declarations of independence : prime meridians in America, c.1784-1884
- Global unity? International standards? : metrology and the regulation of space and time, 1787-1884 ; Globalizing space and time : getting to Greenwich, c.1870-1883 ; Greenwich ascendant : Washington 1884 and the politics of science
- Geographical afterlives. Washington's "afterlife" : the Prime Meridian and Universal Time, 1884-1925 ; Ruling space, fixing time.