Drawing the Line
How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America, Revised Edition
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Beschreibung
The second edition of Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America updates Edwin Danson's definitive history of the creation of the Mason - Dixon Line to reflect new research and archival documents that have come to light in recent years.
* Features numerous updates and revisions reflecting new information that has come to light on surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
* Reveals the true origin of the survey's starting point and the actual location of the surveyors' observatory in Embreeville
* Offers expanded information on Mason and Dixon's transit of Venus adventures, which would be an important influence on their future work, and on Mason's final years pursuing a share of the fabulous Longitude prize, and his death in Philadelphia
* Includes a new, more comprehensive appendix describing the surveying methods utilized to establish the Mason-Dixon Line
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Edwin Danson
Themen in »Drawing the Line«
American Social & Cultural History Bauingenieur- u. Bauwesen Civil Engineering & Construction Geographie Geography Geography Special Topics Geschichte History Mason-Dixon-Linie Sozial- u. Kulturgeschichte Amerikas Spezialthemen Geographie Surveying Vermessung Vermessung, Trassierung