Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America /: how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: How Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America
• Further Information: Note: Edwin Danson.
• Authors: Danson, Edwin, 1948-
• Contents: 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
• Edition: Revised edition
• Publisher Details: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 974.8802; Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania; Frontier and pioneer life -- Maryland; Surveying -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century; Surveying -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century; Boundaries; Frontier and pioneer life; Surveying; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General; HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA); HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT); Mason-Dixon Line -- History; Pennsylvania -- Boundaries -- Maryland -- History; Maryland -- Boundaries -- Pennsylvania -- History; Maryland; Pennsylvania; United States -- Mason-Dixon Line; History; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781119141815; 1119141818; 9781119141822; 1119141826; 9781119246145; 1119246148
• Related ISBNs: 9781119141877
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
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