Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian by Charles W.J. Withers

Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian

Charles W.J. Withers

336 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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Space and time on earth are regulated by the prime meridian, 0, which is, by convention, based at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. But the meridian's location in southeast London is not a simple legacy of Britain's imperial past. Before the ninet...

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