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Charles Withers explains how the choice of Greenwich to mark 0° longitude solved problems of global measurement that had engaged geographers, astronomers, and mariners since ancient times. This history is a testament to the power of maps, the challenges of global measurement, and the role of scientific authority in creating the modern world.

Meridians (Geodesy) --- Geographical positions --- Positions, Geographical --- Geodesy --- Geospatial data --- Grids (Cartography) --- Latitude --- Longitude --- Mathematical geography --- Lines, Meridian --- Meridian lines --- History. --- Prime Meridian --- 0⁰ meridian --- Greenwich, Meridian of --- Meridian of Greenwich --- Zero degrees meridian --- Zero meridian

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Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international team of leading scholars, and illustrated by original empirical material, this work provides a timely synthesis to the geographies of the book, and advances new perspectives on how this area of research should be approached.

Book history --- Book industries and trade --- Books and reading --- Publishers and publishing --- Literature and state. --- Livres --- Livres et lecture --- Editeurs et édition --- Littérature --- History --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Industrie --- Histoire --- Aspect social --- Politique gouvernementale --- Political aspects. --- Book industries and trade -- Political aspects. --- Book industries and trade -- Social aspects. --- Books and reading -- Political aspects. --- Books and reading -- Social aspects. --- Literature and state --- Book Studies & Arts --- Education --- Social Sciences --- Political aspects --- 09 <08> --- Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen--Boekwetenschap. Sociale aspecten van het boek. Boek en media. Toekomst van het boek --- 09 <08> Handschriften. Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Curiosa--Verzamelwerken. Reeksen--Boekwetenschap. Sociale aspecten van het boek. Boek en media. Toekomst van het boek --- Editeurs et édition --- Littérature --- Book publishing --- Books --- Booksellers and bookselling --- State and literature --- Authors and patrons --- Cultural policy --- Appraisal of books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- Book trade --- Cultural industries --- Manufacturing industries --- Publishing --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Social history

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Human geography --- Géographie humaine --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- History --- Histoire --- 82.04 --- 930.85.48 --- 930.85.48 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- Historical geography.

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"This collection of essays addresses the role of space in the construction and dissemination of scientific ideas in the nineteenth century. The essays pay particular attention to the role of scale, ranging from the local scale of the Surrey countryside to the global spatiality of the prime meridian. The collection opens new avenues for studying the ways that science was a geographically situated set of practices in the nineteenth century"--

Science --- Scientific expeditions --- Intellectual life --- History --- History --- History.