Format:
1 Online-Ressource (283 p)
Edition:
2nd ed
ISBN:
9781119246145
Content:
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
Content:
Chapter 10 15 Statute Miles, Horizontal -- Notes -- Chapter 11 The Tail of Ursae Minoris -- Notes -- 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
Content:
Chapter 23 Finishing the Job -- Notes -- Appendix -- Astronomy -- Positions of the stars and planets -- First Point of Aries -- Nutation -- 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
Content:
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- EULA
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119141815
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119246145
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Danson, Edwin Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America : Wiley,c2016
Language:
English
Keywords:
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