| Description |
1 online resource |
| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two English surveyors, treked through the fields and forests of eighteenth-century America to create the famous Mason Dixon line. This book describes life in the backwoods and the hardships and dangers of frontier surveying and shows how Mason and Dixon succeeded where the best American surveyors of the period failed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Mason, Charles, 1728-1786.
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Dixon, Jeremiah
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Dixon, Jeremiah fast |
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Mason, Charles, 1728-1786 fast |
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Pennsylvania.
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Frontier and pioneer life -- Maryland
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Surveying -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 18th century
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Surveying -- Maryland -- History -- 18th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Boundaries
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Frontier and pioneer life
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Surveying
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Mason-Dixon Line -- History
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Pennsylvania -- Boundaries -- Maryland -- History
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Maryland -- Boundaries -- Pennsylvania -- History
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Maryland
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Pennsylvania
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United States -- Mason-Dixon Line
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016002908 |
| ISBN |
9781119141815 |
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1119141818 |
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9781119141822 |
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1119141826 |
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9781119246145 |
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1119246148 |
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