Walking Zero
Subtitle: Discovering Cosmic Space and Time Along the PRIME MERIDIAN
Publisher: Walker & Company; Walker & Co.; Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Published: May 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780802714947
Subjects: Science/Mathematics; Science; History; Science / History; Prime Meridian; Space and time
Description: "Chet Raymo use the prime meridian-- the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks-- to reconstruct the story of humankind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the galaxies and geologic eons."--Jacket.