Zero degrees : geographies of the Prime Meridian /
Withers, Charles W. J.,author.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-308) and index.
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.
Meridians (Geodesy)
Geographical positions
Meridians (Geodesy)
Geographical positions.