Greenwich time and the discovery of the longitude / Derek Howse.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.Description: xviii, 254 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0192159488 :
- 9780192159489 :
- Royal Greenwich Observatory -- History
- Time -- Systems and standards
- Longitude
- Time measurements -- History
- Longitude -- Measurement -- History
- Other manufacturing technologies
- Time Measurement Role of Royal Greenwich Observatory, to 1978
- Longitude Measurement Role of Royal Greenwich Observatory, to 1978
- 529.75
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Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [232]-234.
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