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100 1  Withers, Charles W. J.,|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       names/n85016795|eauthor. 
245 10 Zero degrees :|bgeographies of the Prime Meridian /
       |cCharles W.J. Withers. 
264  1 Cambridge, Massachusetts :|bHarvard University Press,
       |c2017. 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    1 online resource (x, 321 pages) :|billustrations, maps 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  One line to rule the world -- Geographical confusion. 
       "Absurd vanity" : the world's prime meridians before 
       c.1790 ; Declarations of independence : prime meridians in
       America, c.1784-1884 -- Global unity? International 
       standards? : metrology and the regulation of space and 
       time, 1787-1884 ; Globalizing space and time : getting to 
       Greenwich, c.1870-1883 ; Greenwich ascendant : Washington 
       1884 and the politics of science -- Geographical 
       afterlives. Washington's "afterlife" : the Prime Meridian 
       and Universal Time, 1884-1925 ; Ruling space, fixing time.
520    Space and time on earth are regulated by the Prime 
       Meridian, 0°, which is, by convention, based at the Royal
       Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian's location in 
       southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain's 
       imperial past. Before the nineteenth century, more than 
       twenty-five different prime meridians were in use around 
       the world, including Paris, Beijing, Greenwich, Washington,
       and the location traditional in Europe since Ptolemy, the 
       Canary Islands. Charles Withers explains how the choice of
       Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved complex problems of
       global measurement that had engaged geographers, 
       astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. Withers 
       guides readers through the navigation and astronomy 
       associated with diverse meridians and explains the 
       problems that these cartographic lines both solved and 
       created. He shows that as science and commerce became more
       global and as railway and telegraph networks tied the 
       world closer together, the multiplicity of prime meridians
       led to ever greater confusion in the coordination of time 
       and the geographical division of space. After a series of 
       international scientific meetings, notably the 1884 
       International Meridian Conference in Washington, DC, 
       Greenwich emerged as the most pragmatic choice for a 
       global prime meridian, though not unanimously or without 
       acrimony. Even after 1884, other prime meridians remained 
       in use for decades. As Zero Degrees shows, geographies of 
       the prime meridian are a testament to the power of maps, 
       the challenges of accurate measurement on a global scale, 
       and the role of scientific authority in creating the 
       modern world--|cProvided by publisher. 
546    In English. 
588 0  Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed 
       March 29, 2017). 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
       Collection - North America 
650  0 Meridians (Geodesy)|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh2002000008|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99005024 
650  0 Geographical positions|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh85053984|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh99005024 
650  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/958235 
650  7 Meridians (Geodesy)|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1017177 
650  7 Geographical positions.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/
       fast/940464 
651  0 Prime Meridian|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/
       sh85078295|xHistory.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/
       subjects/sh99005024 
651  7 Prime Meridian.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/
       1241720 
655  4 Electronic books. 
655  7 History.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aWithers, Charles W.J.|tZero degrees.
       |dCambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 
       2017|z9780674088818|z0674088816|w(DLC)  2016040039
       |w(OCoLC)959648554 
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