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9780387755342 |
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99780387755342 |
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10.1007/978-0-387-75534-2 |
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doi |
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520 |
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Murdin, Paul. |
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editor. |
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| Title |
Full Meridian of Glory |
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[recurso electrónico] : |
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Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth / |
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edited by Paul Murdin. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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New York, NY : |
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Springer New York, |
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2009. |
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online resource. |
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text |
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txt |
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computer |
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rdamedia |
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recurso en línea |
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rdacarrier |
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text file |
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PDF |
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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. |
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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 they were sometimes less than neutral, and if their work was questioned they sometimes blindly descended into petty politics. This book tells the story of the adventures in France, in Spain, in Lapland and in Ecuador of the scientists who worked through revolution, war, rebellion, piracy, fire, shipwreck, blockade, snow, tropical heat, kidnapping, murder and turbulent love affairs to pursue a problem of map making. They turned that practical problem into a crucial scientific test of one of the most important intellectual problems of their time - Newton's theory of universal gravitation. Their work changed their own lives, affected the course of science and politics, and left its mark on the landscape, the art and the literature of history and in our own age. |
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PHYSICS. |
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SCIENCE |
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HISTORY. |
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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. |
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ASTRONOMY. |
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SCIENCE (GENERAL). |
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PHYSICS. |
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ASTRONOMY, ASTROPHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY. |
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POPULAR SCIENCE IN ASTRONOMY. |
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HISTORY OF SCIENCE. |
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GEOPHYSICS/GEODESY. |
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POPULAR SCIENCE, GENERAL. |
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SpringerLink (Online service) |
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Springer eBooks |
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Printed edition: |
| International Standard Book Number |
9780387755335 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75534-2">http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75534-2</a> |
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Ver el texto completo en las instalaciones del CICY |
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Libros electrónicos |
