Article ID: CBB000015094

The Canary Islands and the question of the Prime Meridian: The search for precision in the measurement of the earth (1984)

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Authors & Contributors
Howse, H. Derek
Bialas, Volker
Widmalm, Sven
Waters, David W.
Smyth, David
Schmidt, Fritz
Journals
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Islamic Culture
Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences
Cartographica
Cartographic Journal
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Wittwer
Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Terrenate Research
Oxford University Press
Ordnance Survey of Ireland
People
Santa Cruz, Alonso de
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Thompson, David
Peirce, Charles Sanders
Liesganig, Joseph
al-Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
Renaissance
17th century
Places
British Isles
France
Institutions
Ireland, Ordnance Survey
Great Britain. Ordnance Survey
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