A Forgotten Prime Meridian
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A Forgotten Prime Meridian
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Author : Horace Everett Ware
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
A Forgotten Prime Meridian written by Horace Everett Ware and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Geomagnetism categories.
This report and its supplement contain scholarly studies of the early works on the prime meridian.
Remarks Upon The Establishment Of An American Prime Meridian Classic Reprint
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Author : Charles Henry Davis
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-11-12
Remarks Upon The Establishment Of An American Prime Meridian Classic Reprint written by Charles Henry Davis and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-12 with categories.
Excerpt from Remarks Upon the Establishment of an American Prime Meridian As the best mode of presenting the question fully, of suggesting the scientific and practical considera tions it involves, and thus of inviting the most full and free expression of the views and reflections of the members of the Association, I read a paper before the Association, the same in substance as my letter to the honorable Secretary, which was referred to a com mittee consisting of twenty-two members, from vari ous parts of the country. A second paper, opposed to my own, was read by Professor Holton, which was likewise referred to the same committee. It is well known that a memorial has been gotten up in Boston, New York, and elsewhere, under the influence and direction of Mr. J. Ingersoll Bowditch and Mr. George W. Blunt, adverse to the adoption of an American prime meridian, and recommending, there fore, that we should not publish an American Nau tical Almanac, but that we should publish a British Nautical Almanac in this country. Several of the letters of the committee recommend, without discrim ination, the same thing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Zero Degrees
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Author : Charles W. J. Withers
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-13
Zero Degrees written by Charles W. J. Withers and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-13 with History categories.
Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. This history is a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of global measurement, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.
Zero Degrees
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Author : Charles W. J. Withers
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-13
Zero Degrees written by Charles W. J. Withers and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-13 with Science categories.
Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. This history is a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of global measurement, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.
Transactions
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Author : Colonial Society of Massachusetts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1920
Transactions written by Colonial Society of Massachusetts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1920 with Massachusetts categories.
Lost Cities And Forgotten Civilizations
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Author : Michael Pye
language : en
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group
Release Date : 2013
Lost Cities And Forgotten Civilizations written by Michael Pye and has been published by The Rosen Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
Cosmology, the mysteries of the pyramids, ancient nuclear weapons, Atlantis, and the role of our government through history all come together in this book.
Axis Of Heaven
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Author : Paul Broadhurst (Mythologist)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Axis Of Heaven written by Paul Broadhurst (Mythologist) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Prime Meridian categories.
The American Historical Review
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Author : John Franklin Jameson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1911
The American Historical Review written by John Franklin Jameson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1911 with Electronic journals categories.
American Historical Review is the oldest scholarly journal of history in the United States and the largest in the world. Published by the American Historical Association, it covers all areas of historical research.
Full Meridian Of Glory
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Author : Paul Murdin
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-12-25
Full Meridian Of Glory written by Paul Murdin and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-25 with Science categories.
[the text below needs editing and we must be careful not to say things about Dan Brown's book that could get Springer in legal trouble] Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, was first published in 2003; its sales have reached 40 million worldwide. The book mixes a small spice of fact into a large dollop of fiction to create an entertaining novel of intrigue, adventure, romance, danger and conspiracy, which have been imaginatively worked together to cook up the successful bestseller. Most interest in the book’s origins has centred on the sensational religious aspects. Dan Brown has written: ‘All of the art, architecture, secret rituals, secret societies, all of that is historical fact.’ This gives an air of authenticity to the book. Brown has, however, made up the religious doctrines, or based them on questionable accounts by others. The locations of the actions of The Da Vinci Code are not, however, made up. The present book is the scientific story behind the scene of several of the book’s actions that take place on the axis of France that passes through Paris. The Paris Meridian is the name of this location. It is the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. One of the original intentions behind the founding of the Paris Observatory was to determine and measure this line. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers – people who study and measure the stars – and geodesists – people who study and measure the Earth. This book is about what they did and why. It is a true story behind Dan Brown’s fiction. This is the first English language presentation of this historical material. It is attractively written and it features the story of the community of scientists who created the Paris Meridian. They knew each other well – some were members of the same families, in one case of four generations. Like scientists everywhere they collaborated and formed alliances; they also split into warring factions and squabbled. They travelled to foreign countries, somehow transcending the national and political disputes, as scientists do now, their eyes fixed on ideas of accuracy, truth and objective, enduring values – save where the reception given to their own work is concerned, when some became blind to high ideals and descended into petty politics. To establish the Paris Meridian, the scientists endured hardship, survived danger and gloried in amazing adventures during a time of turmoil in Europe, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War between France and Spain. Some were accused of witchcraft. Some of their associates lost their heads on the guillotine. Some died of disease. Some won honour and fame. One became the Head of State in France, albeit for no more than a few weeks. Some found dangerous love in foreign countries. One scientist killed in self defence when attacked by a jealous lover, another was himself killed by a jealous lover, a third brought back a woman to France and then jilted her, whereupon she joined a convent. The scientists worked on practical problems of interest to the government and to the people. They also worked on one of the important intellectual problems of the time, a problem of great interest to their fellow scientists all over the world, nothing less than the theory of universal gravitation. They succeeded in their intellectual work, while touching politics and the affairs of state. Their endeavours have left their marks on the landscape, in art and in literature.
Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees
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Author : Lawrence Weschler
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2008
Seeing Is Forgetting The Name Of The Thing One Sees written by Lawrence Weschler and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where philosophical concepts of perception and the world interact. Weschler has charted the journey with exceptional clarity and cogency. He has also, in the process, provided what seems to me the best running history of postwar West Coast art that I have yet seen."—Calvin Tomkins