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" October, 1 884, for the purpose of discussing and, if possible, fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time-reckoning throughout the whole world... "
Nature - Page 107
edited by - 1885
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Sun, Earth, Time, and Man

Lucia Carolyn Harrison - 1960 - 314 pages
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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, Volumes 72-73

1962 - 838 pages
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Geography in World Society: A Conceptual Approach

Alfred H. Meyer, John H. Strietelmeier - 1963 - 878 pages
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Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives

2001 - 336 pages
...resolution that called upon the President to convene an international conference "for the purposes of fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a...standard of timereckoning throughout the globe."-" With the competing bills receiving support from different House committees, par265 liamentary maneuvering...
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Astronomy, Volume 1

Bernard Lovell - 1970 - 440 pages
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Queen's Quarterly, Volumes 1-2

1970 - 712 pages
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Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar

Duncan Steel - 2000 - 433 pages
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Prologue

2000 - 560 pages
...resolution that called upon the President to convene an international conference "for the purposes of fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a...longitude and standard of timereckoning throughout the globe."2" With the competing bills receiving support from different House committees, parliamentary...
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Selling the True Time: Nineteenth-Century Timekeeping in America

Ian R. Bartky - 2000 - 346 pages
...and, along with a few late arrivals from four other countries, were in Washington "for the purpose of fixing upon a meridian proper to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time- reckoning throughout the globe." Included among the five-member American delegation to the International...
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