Full Meridian of Glory : Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth. 1st ed. 2009

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by Paul Murdin

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Copernicus, 2009

著者名:

• Murdin, Paul.
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ISBN:

9780387755342 [0387755349]    

注記:

The Incroyable Pique-nique and the Méridienne Verte -- The Size of France -- Shape of the Earth -- The Meridian and the Sun -- The Revolution and the Meter -- The Paris Meridian in the Napoleonic Wars -- Past its Prime -- The Greenwich and Paris Meridians in the Space Age -- On the Trail of The Da Vinci Code -- Walking the Line: the Arago Memorial.
The Paris Meridian is the name of 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. To that end, the French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to do so in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries employing 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. Full Meridian of Glory is the first English language presentation of this historical material in its entirety. It is an attractively written story of the scientists who created the Paris Meridian. They collaborated and worked together in alliances, like scientists everywhere; they also split into warring factions. They transcended national and political disputes, as scientists do now, their eyes fixed on ideals of accuracy, truth and objectivity. Yet also when their work served national interests t

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