Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian

by Charles W.J. Withers

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674088816
• ISBN13: 9780674088818
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"