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Zero Degrees

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Zero Degrees

By Charles W. J. Withers

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About the book

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 Islands. Charles Withers explains how the cho...Show more

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9780674088818

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2017

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1

Original title

Zero Degrees

Format

Hardcover

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