Plotting the Globe : Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line (Explorations in World Maritime History)
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“Ariel and Berger have collected a variety of stories and myths of navigation, geography and geodesy to describe how the Prime Meridian, the Equator, and the International Date Line work and thereby how we measure time itself. They begin by describing how the points and lines on the globe work, then move to who determined the shape of the earth and the length of one meter, what the folks of the classic age had to say about time and space, why Greenwich is the center of all time, what happened when the Global Positioning System was born, how the Date Line became the Date Line and who found the equator so very interesting.”–
Book Description
People use concepts such as time and date to structure their lives on a daily basis. They often measure their travel by marking points arranged along great circles on the globe. Yet most do not understand the origin and history of these terms and the stories of the intrepid adventurers, scientists, and seafarers who shaped our picture of the world today. Ariel transports readers to faraway lands and ancient cultures that span more than 3500 years of exploration. Phoenicians, Spaniards, Portuguese, British, French, and many others star in an epic that stretches from Lapland to Cape Horn, via Greenwich, Paris, the Andes and the Fortunate Islands.
Plotting the Globe : Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line (Explorations in World Maritime History)
Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line (Explorations in World Maritime History),Avraham Ariel,Nora Ariel Berger,Praeger Publishers,0275988953,Earth Sciences - Geography,History,History - General History,History: World,International Date Line,Meridians (Geodesy),Prime Meridian,World - General,Geodesy & surveying for maps & charts,Geographical discovery & exploration,History / World,History of science,Maritime history
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