Drawing the line : how Mason and Dixon surveyed the most famous border in America / Edwin Danson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danson, Edwin, 1948- author.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Frontier and pioneer life--Pennsylvania.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Frontier and pioneer life--Maryland.

Surveying--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.

Surveying.

Surveying--Maryland--History--18th century.

Mason-Dixon Line--History.

Mason-Dixon Line.

Pennsylvania--Boundaries--Maryland--History.

Pennsylvania.

Maryland--Boundaries--Pennsylvania--History.

Maryland.

Dixon, Jeremiah.

Mason, Charles, 1728-1786.

Mason, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, [England] : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119141822

1119141826

9781119141808

111914180X

9781119141815

1119141818

OCLC:

946787599