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Astronomical Background to the International Meridian Conference of 1884
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 1985
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The aim of this paper is to summarize the contributions made by the Royal Observatory at Greenwich that led, almost inevitably, to the choice of the Airy transit circle to define the zero meridian for the measurement of longitude and the beginning of the universal day. Although astronomical considerations were not of direct relevance to the deliberations of the 1884 conference, they formed the essential background to the navigational and civil interests which were dominant.
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- The Centenary of the Adoption of Greenwich as the Zero Meridian
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- Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1985
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The Origins, Achievement and Influence of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 1675–1975. Proceedings of the Tercentenary Symposium, July 1975. In Vistas in Astronomy, vol. 20, parts 1/2. Pergamon Press.Google Scholar
Greenwich Time, and the Discovery of the Longitude. By Derek, Howse. Oxford University Press, 1980.Google Scholar
Proceedings of the Longitude Zero Symposium held at Greenwich in July 1984. In Vistas in Astronomy (in the press).Google Scholar
Man is Not Lost. A record of two-hundred years of astronomical navigation with the Nautical Almanac, 1767–1967. HMSO, 1968.Google Scholar