Books - Geodesy
Book Lists - TOC
Books - Calendars
Books - Latitude and Longitude
Books - Cartography
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E. G. Richards
Mapping Time:
The Calendar and Its History
1998 - 438 pp
5
Anthony F. Aveni
Empires of Time:
Calendars, Clocks, and Cultures
2002 - University Press of Colorado - rev ed - 368 p
none
Anthony Aveni
Empires of Time:
Calendars, Clocks, and Culture
1989 - Basic Books - 371 p
3
David Ewing Duncan
Calendar:
Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine
a True and Accurate Year
2001 - Harper Perennial - 352 p
4
Duncan Steel
Marking Time:
The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar
2000 - J. Wiley - 422 p
4
Michael Judge
The Dance of Time:
The Origins of the Calendar:
A Miscellany of History and Myth,
Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days
2004 - Arcade Pub. - 256 p
2
Bonnie J. Blackburn
The Oxford Companion to the Year
1999 - Oxford University Press - 937 p
8
Arno Borst
The Ordering of Time:
From the Ancient Computus
to the Modern Computer
1993 - University of Chicago Press - 168 p
1
Patrick Wyse Jackson
The Chronologers' Quest:
Episodes in the Search
for the Age of the Earth
2006 - Cambridge University Press - 291 p
1
J. D. Macdougall
Nature's Clocks:
How Scientists Measure the
Age of Almost Everything
2008 - University of California Press - 271 p
2
Cherry Lewis
The Dating Game:
One Man's Search for the Age of the Earth
2000 - Cambridge University Press - 253 p
biography of Arthur Holmes
1
G. Brent Dalrymple
Ancient Earth, Ancient Skies:
The Age of Earth and its Cosmic Surroundings
2004 - Stanford University Press - 264 p
none
G. Brent Dalrymple
The Age of the Earth
1991 - Stanford University Press - 492 p
none
Pascal Richet
A Natural History of Time
2007 - University of Chicago Press - 471 p
2
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Books - Latitude and Longitude
Christine Garwood
Flat Earth:
The History of an Infamous Idea
2007 - Thomas Dunne Books - 436 p
1
Ken Adler
The Measurement of All Things
2002 - The Free Press - 422 pp
measuring the arc of the meridian, metric system
none
Edwin Danson
Weighing the World:
The Quest to Measure the Earth
2006 - Oxford University Press - 289 p
2
Edwin Danson
Drawing the Line:
How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the
Most Famous Border in America
2000 - Wiley -
1
John Keay
The Great Arc:
The Dramatic Tale of How India Was
Mapped and Everest Was Named
2000 - HarperCollins - 182 p
7
Bill Carter
Latitude:
How American Astronomers Solved
the Mystery of Variation
2002 - Naval Institute Press - 252 p
1
Lucia C. Harrison
Sun, Earth, Time, and Man
1960 - Rand McNally - 287 p
1
Clark Blaise
Time Lord:
Sir Sanford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
2000 - Pantheon Books - 256 p
4
Derek Howse
Greenwich Time and the Discovery of the Longitude
1980 - Oxford University Press - 254 p
1
Dava Sobel
Longitude:
The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved
the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
1995 - Walker - 184 p
19
Dava Sobel
The Illustrated Longitude
1998 - Walker - 216 p
3
Joan Dash
The Longitude Prize
2000 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 200 p
7
Chet Raymo
Walking Zero:
Discovering Cosmic Space and Time
Along the Prime Meridian
2006 - Walker and Company - 194 p
7
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Nicholas Crane
Mercator:
The Man Who Mapped the Planet
2003 - H. Holt - 348 p
3
Andrew Taylor
The World of Gerard Mercator:
The Mapmaker Who Revolutionized Geography
2004 - Walker and Co. - 291 p
1
John Noble Wilford
The Mapmakers
2001 - Vintage Books - 2nd ed. - 507 p
Originally published: A.A. Knopf, 1981
Rev. ed. published in 2000.
1
G. R. Crone
Maps and Their Makers:
An Introduction to the History of Cartography
1978 - W. Dawson; Archon Books - 5th ed. - 152 p
1
Lloyd A. Brown
The Story of Maps
1979 - Dover Publications - 397 p
1
John R. Short
The World Through Maps:
A History of Cartography
2003 - Firefly Books - 224 p
4
Ralph E. Ehrenberg
Mapping the World:
An Illustrated History of Cartography
2006 - National Geographic - 256 p
3
William 'Strata' Smith
William Smith (1769-1839) - Wikipedia
Geologic Time Scale - Wikipedia
Simon Winchester
The Map That Changed the World:
William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology
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Flat Earth - Wikipedia
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