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]
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Table of Contents:
  • One line to rule the world
  • Geographical confusion. Absurd vanity : the world's prime meridians before c.1790 ; Declarations of independence : prime meridians in America, c.1784-1884
  • Global unity? International standards? : metrology and the regulation of space and time, 1787-1884 ; Globalizing space and time : getting to Greenwich, c.1870-1883 ; Greenwich ascendant : Washington 1884 and the politics of science
  • Geographical afterlives. Washington's afterlife : the Prime Meridian and Universal Time, 1884-1925 ; Ruling space, fixing time.