FROM MILES TO MILLIMETRES: THE STORY OF GEODESY AT ORDNANCE SURVEY 1791–1991

Author： Macdonald A. S.   Christie R. R.  

Publisher： Maney Publishing

ISSN： 1752-2706

Source： Survey Review, Vol.31, Iss.241, 1991-07, pp. : 126-147

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Abstract

Know … That on the summit whither thou art bound A geographic Labourer pitched his tent, With books supplied and instruments of art, To measure height and distance; lonely task, Week after week pursued!Wordsworth, 1813, from ‘Written with a slate pencil on a stone on the side of the Mountain of Black Comb’.

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