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Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America / 6 How Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America 6 Edwin Danson. - Revised edition. - - 1 online resource. - - - - - . - . - 0 . - . - 0 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition; Introduction to the Revised Edition; Chapter 1 In the Reign of George the Third; Notes; Chapter 2 The Fortieth Degree; Notes; Chapter 3 Kings and Queens; Notes; Chapter 4 Entirely at a Stand; Notes; Chapter 5 Curious Knowing People; Notes; Chapter 6 The Transit of Venus; Notes; Chapter 7 Mr. Bird's Contrivances; Note; Chapter 8 Persons Intirely Accomplished; Notes; Chapter 9 The Southernmost Point of the City; Notes; Chapter 10 15 Statute Miles, Horizontal; Notes;Chapter 11 The Tail of Ursae MinorisNotes; Chapter 12 Fine Sport for the Boys; Notes; Chapter 13 From the Post mark'd West; Chapter 14 The Pencil of Time; Notes; Chapter 15 King of the Tuscarawa; Notes; Chapter 16 From Hence; to the Summit; Notes; Chapter 17 At a Council of the Royal Society; Notes; Chapter 18 Vibration of the Pendulum; Chapter 19 Not One Step Further; Notes; Chapter 20 A Degree of Latitude; Notes; Chapter 21 The Last Transit; Notes; Chapter 22 A Very Helpless Condition; Notes; Chapter 23 Finishing the Job; Notes; Appendix; Astronomy; Positions of the stars and planets;First Point of AriesNutation; Apparent time; Mean time; Sidereal time; Longitude, Latitude, and the Shape of Earth; Longitude; Latitude; The meridian and north; Surveying Methods; The Tangent Line: 1761-1763; The Tangent Line: 1764; Setting the zenith sector; Equal altitudes; Setting out the West Line; Running the sections from the Susquehanna; Starting point for the 1766 season; Degrees of Latitude: A Short History; The Mystery of the Mason-Dixon Mile; Notes; Bibliography; Index; EULA
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Mason, Charles,;Dixon, Jeremiah.;Mason, Charles, 1728-1786.;1728-1786. --------
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Frontier and pioneer life;Frontier and pioneer life;Surveying;Surveying;Frontier and pioneer life. ----History;History--Pennsylvania.;Maryland.;Pennsylvania;Maryland--18th century.;18th century.--
Mason-Dixon Line;Pennsylvania----History.;Boundaries;History.--Maryland--20--
History.;Electronic books.;Electronic books.----
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Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America / 6 How Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America 6 Edwin Danson. - Revised edition. - - 1 online resource. - - - - - . - . - 0 . - . - 0 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments for the Revised Edition; Introduction to the Revised Edition; Chapter 1 In the Reign of George the Third; Notes; Chapter 2 The Fortieth Degree; Notes; Chapter 3 Kings and Queens; Notes; Chapter 4 Entirely at a Stand; Notes; Chapter 5 Curious Knowing People; Notes; Chapter 6 The Transit of Venus; Notes; Chapter 7 Mr. Bird's Contrivances; Note; Chapter 8 Persons Intirely Accomplished; Notes; Chapter 9 The Southernmost Point of the City; Notes; Chapter 10 15 Statute Miles, Horizontal; Notes;Chapter 11 The Tail of Ursae MinorisNotes; Chapter 12 Fine Sport for the Boys; Notes; Chapter 13 From the Post mark'd West; Chapter 14 The Pencil of Time; Notes; Chapter 15 King of the Tuscarawa; Notes; Chapter 16 From Hence; to the Summit; Notes; Chapter 17 At a Council of the Royal Society; Notes; Chapter 18 Vibration of the Pendulum; Chapter 19 Not One Step Further; Notes; Chapter 20 A Degree of Latitude; Notes; Chapter 21 The Last Transit; Notes; Chapter 22 A Very Helpless Condition; Notes; Chapter 23 Finishing the Job; Notes; Appendix; Astronomy; Positions of the stars and planets;First Point of AriesNutation; Apparent time; Mean time; Sidereal time; Longitude, Latitude, and the Shape of Earth; Longitude; Latitude; The meridian and north; Surveying Methods; The Tangent Line: 1761-1763; The Tangent Line: 1764; Setting the zenith sector; Equal altitudes; Setting out the West Line; Running the sections from the Susquehanna; Starting point for the 1766 season; Degrees of Latitude: A Short History; The Mystery of the Mason-Dixon Mile; Notes; Bibliography; Index; EULA
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9781119246145
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2016002908
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Mason, Charles,;Dixon, Jeremiah.;Mason, Charles, 1728-1786.;1728-1786. --------
6 --0-- 2 --------
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1700-1799
Frontier and pioneer life;Frontier and pioneer life;Surveying;Surveying;Frontier and pioneer life. ----History;History--Pennsylvania.;Maryland.;Pennsylvania;Maryland--18th century.;18th century.--
Mason-Dixon Line;Pennsylvania----History.;Boundaries;History.--Maryland--20--
History.;Electronic books.;Electronic books.----
F157.B7 / 2
974.8/802 / 223
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