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...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Withers, Charles W. J. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Prime Meridian > History. Meridians (Geodesy) > History. Geographical positions > History.