Walking Zero: discovering cosmic space and time along the Prime Meridian.
by RAYMO, Chet
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0802714943
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714947
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About This Item
New York:: Walker, 2006., 2006. Small 8vo. xiii, [1], 194 pp. Figs., index. Hardcover, dust-jacket. Embossed stamp of Alan Bishop. Very good. ISBN: 0802714943 The author uses the prime meridian - the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks - to reconstruct the story of humankind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the galaxies and geologic eons. – Jacket. Raymo was associated with Stonehill College.
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- Bookseller
- Jeff Weber Rare Books (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- S14028
- Title
- Walking Zero: discovering cosmic space and time along the Prime Meridian.
- Author
- RAYMO, Chet
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0802714943
- ISBN 13
- 9780802714947
- Publisher
- Walker, 2006.
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Astronomy
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