Murdin Paul:
Full Meridian Of Glory
Perilous Adventures In The Competition To Measure The Earth
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. (United States), 2008
Hardback, 208 pages
Size: 235x155 mm
ISBN: 9780387755335
ISBN-10: 0387755330
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Full Meridian Of Glory
The Paris Meridian is the name of the line running north-south through the astronomical observatory in Paris. The French government financed the Paris Academy of Sciences to determine and measure this line in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. It employed both astronomers and geodesists. This book discusses about what they did and why.

