Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America / / Edwin Danson
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| Autore: |
Danson Edwin <1948->
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| Titolo: |
Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America / / Edwin Danson
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| Pubblicazione: | Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2017 |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | Revised edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (283 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 974.8/802 |
| Soggetto topico: | Frontier and pioneer life - Pennsylvania |
| Frontier and pioneer life - Maryland | |
| Surveying - Pennsylvania - History - 18th century | |
| Surveying - Maryland - History - 18th century | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Mason-Dixon Line History |
| Pennsylvania Boundaries Maryland History | |
| Maryland Boundaries Pennsylvania History | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Chapter 11 The Tail of Ursae MinorisNotes; Chapter 12 Fine Sport for the Boys; Notes; Chapter 13 From the Post mark'd West; Chapter 14 The Pencil of Time; Notes; Chapter 15 King of the Tuscarawa; Notes; Chapter 16 From Hence; to the Summit; Notes; Chapter 17 At a Council of the Royal Society; Notes; Chapter 18 Vibration of the Pendulum; Chapter 19 Not One Step Further; Notes; Chapter 20 A Degree of Latitude; Notes; Chapter 21 The Last Transit; Notes; Chapter 22 A Very Helpless Condition; Notes; Chapter 23 Finishing the Job; Notes; Appendix; Astronomy; Positions of the stars and planets |
| First Point of AriesNutation; Apparent time; Mean time; Sidereal time; Longitude, Latitude, and the Shape of Earth; Longitude; Latitude; The meridian and north; Surveying Methods; The Tangent Line: 1761-1763; The Tangent Line: 1764; Setting the zenith sector; Equal altitudes; Setting out the West Line; Running the sections from the Susquehanna; Starting point for the 1766 season; Degrees of Latitude: A Short History; The Mystery of the Mason-Dixon Mile; Notes; Bibliography; Index; EULA | |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Drawing the line |
| ISBN: | 1-119-14182-6 |
| 1-119-14180-X | |
| 1-119-14181-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821159803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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