Plates from Royal Society publications
Illustrating William Roy's Baseline on Hounslow Heath
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20316352 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Bennett (Google (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225-230 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Notes and Records the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-9149 • E-ISSN: 1743-0178 |
| Publisher | The Royal Society (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1098/rsnr.2006.0138 |
| OpenAlex | W1986014438 |
| Language | EN |
These four plates from Philosophical Transactions are among the finest and most detailed precision drawings published in the eighteenth century. They accompany the first of three long papers by William Roy dealing with his trigonometric survey of southern England. This was the British contribution
Art · Baseline (sea) · Political science · Sociology · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Geography and Cartography · History and Theory of Mathematics · Law · Medicine · Gerontology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |