4 THE MEASURE OF THINGS
round t ludicrouslyambitious undertaking—a mistake of test fraction of a degree by miles—but in fact, as Noro “ling”—or, more precisely, to six ric terms, at 110.72 kilometers per degree of arc.
In 1637, Norerion, tice , teen editions and ill in printty-five years after urned to Bermuda you are spinning depends on or to 0 at the poles.
successful planter and devoting o love, trigonometry. y-eig o report t ion. In fact, . On te, and someraumatized t ed muc of o persecutingNorwood in any small way hink of.
Norional pain by making poor marriages.
One of ted by tinually laid small cNor, causing ion and necessitating repeated trips acrossBermuda to defend crials came to Bermuda and Nor rigonometry, aken as communications reated to adreadful execution. So little is kno it may in fact be t is certainly true is t them.
Meanermining to France.
tronomer Jean Picard devised an impressively complicated metriangulation involving quadrants, pendulum clocks, zenitors, and telescopes (forobserving tions of ter). After trundling and triangulatinge measure of 110.46 kilometersfor one degree of arc. t source of pride for t it ed ontion t t spon no .
to complicate matters, after Picard’s deateam of Giovanni andJacques Cassini repeated Picard’s experiments over a larger area and came up s tsuggested t tter not at tor but at t Nely prompted to dispatco Souto take nes.
to measure near tor, to determine ifty t mountainslines. In f