UID:
almahu_9948198488602882
Format:
1 online resource
Edition:
Revised edition.
ISBN:
9781119141815
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1119141818
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9781119141822
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1119141826
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9781119246145
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1119246148
Note:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition; Introduction to the Revised Edition; Chapter 1 In the Reign of George the Third; Notes; Chapter 2 The Fortieth Degree; Notes; Chapter 3 Kings and Queens; Notes; Chapter 4 Entirely at a Stand; Notes; Chapter 5 Curious Knowing People; Notes; Chapter 6 The Transit of Venus; Notes; Chapter 7 Mr. Bird's Contrivances; Note; Chapter 8 Persons Intirely Accomplished; Notes; Chapter 9 The Southernmost Point of the City; Notes; Chapter 10 15 Statute Miles, Horizontal; Notes.
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Chapter 11 The Tail of Ursae MinorisNotes; Chapter 12 Fine Sport for the Boys; Notes; Chapter 13 From the Post mark'd West; Chapter 14 The Pencil of Time; Notes; Chapter 15 King of the Tuscarawa; Notes; Chapter 16 From Hence; to the Summit; Notes; Chapter 17 At a Council of the Royal Society; Notes; Chapter 18 Vibration of the Pendulum; Chapter 19 Not One Step Further; Notes; Chapter 20 A Degree of Latitude; Notes; Chapter 21 The Last Transit; Notes; Chapter 22 A Very Helpless Condition; Notes; Chapter 23 Finishing the Job; Notes; Appendix; Astronomy; Positions of the stars and planets.
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First Point of AriesNutation; Apparent time; Mean time; Sidereal time; Longitude, Latitude, and the Shape of Earth; Longitude; Latitude; The meridian and north; Surveying Methods; The Tangent Line: 1761-1763; The Tangent Line: 1764; Setting the zenith sector; Equal altitudes; Setting out the West Line; Running the sections from the Susquehanna; Starting point for the 1766 season; Degrees of Latitude: A Short History; The Mystery of the Mason-Dixon Mile; Notes; Bibliography; Index; EULA.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Danson, Edwin, 1948- Drawing the line. Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2016] ISBN 9781119141877
Language:
English
Keywords:
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URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119246145
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119246145
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119246145
