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Dear Hillary,
I just asked our Documentation Service on the issue you have raised. We will
get back to you (NGI = successor of
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Dear all
Apologies for cross-posting
The next Cambridge Seminar in the History of Cartography will be held in the
Gardner Room,
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Hi!
For a presentation I require an illustration of a coach or carriage as it
might be used for measuring distances. There is
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Hello Kit:
Send me an email off-line (m...@erols.com) and I will send you several
jpeg images of F. R. Hassler's surveying
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Giulio,
no evidencies because for
you 'seeing is not beliving'.
You do non think with your
own mind. Somebody else has
to see
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Thanks to all those who responded to my question about Alexander von Humboldt's
map. The answers were useful and informative.
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Hi, Kit -
I don't know the official way, but a simple way would be to determine
the circumference of one wheel (or trail a fifth
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Kit
See the ODOMETER of Vitruvius (De Architectura) 27 / 23 BC. Odometer from
Greek Odos , road, Metreo, to measure.
See also