Full meridian of glory : perilous adventures in the competition to measure the Earth
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
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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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