Sky and ocean joined : The U.S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000

This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the U.S. to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the his...

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1. Verfasser: Dick, Steven J.
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Veröffentlicht: New York Cambridge University Press 2003
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