Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America / Edwin Danson. 6
By: Danson, Edwin, 4 0 16 [, author.] | [, ] |
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Blackwell, [2016]46Edition: Revised editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781119246145ISSN: 2Other title: How Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- Mason, Charles,;Dixon, Jeremiah.;Mason, Charles, -- -- 1728-1786.;1728-1786. -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | 1700-1799 | -- -- History;History Frontier and pioneer life;Frontier and pioneer life;Surveying;Surveying;Frontier and pioneer life. -- Pennsylvania.;Maryland.;Pennsylvania;Maryland -- 18th century.;18th century. -- | -- -- History.;Boundaries;History. Mason-Dixon Line;Pennsylvania -- 20 -- -- MarylandGenre/Form: History.;Electronic books.;Electronic books. -- -- Additional physical formats: Drawing the lineDDC classification: | 974.8/802 LOC classification: | F157.B7 | 2Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Book | PLM | PLM Circulation Section | Circulation-Circulating | F157.B7 .D36 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | C-EB179 |
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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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