Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000 by Steven J. Dick

Sky and Ocean Joined: The US Naval Observatory 1830-2000

Steven J. Dick

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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 bi...

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