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Walking zero : discovering cosmic space and time along the Prime Meridian / Chet Raymo.

By:

Raymo, Chet

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Walker & Company : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers , c2006.Description: xiii, 194 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:

0802714943
9780802714947

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

526.6 RAY

LOC classification:

GV199.44.G7 R39 2006

Summary: In 2003, Raymo set out to walk across southeastern England along the prime meridian. As becomes clear in the opening pages of his book, his intent was less to recount his travels than to use the prime meridian--the zero line for geographical longitude and international time, as well as a line that runs close to the area of the first dinosaur fossil discoveries, Charles Darwin's home, Isaac Newton's faculty offices, and other important scientific landmarks--as a conceit to explore the scientific history of investigations into space and time.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	526.6 RAY (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		013111

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-188) and index.

In 2003, Raymo set out to walk across southeastern England along the prime meridian. As becomes clear in the opening pages of his book, his intent was less to recount his travels than to use the prime meridian--the zero line for geographical longitude and international time, as well as a line that runs close to the area of the first dinosaur fossil discoveries, Charles Darwin's home, Isaac Newton's faculty offices, and other important scientific landmarks--as a conceit to explore the scientific history of investigations into space and time.

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