Full meridian of glory perilous adventures in the competition to measure the Earth /
The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to determine and measure this line in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers and geodesists. This...
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| Main Author: |
Murdin, Paul. |
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eBook
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English
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New York ; London :
Copernicus Books/Springer,
©2009.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xviii, 187 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
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