United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Zero Meridian

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Zero Meridian is the

George Airy's instrument being placed in a room next to that housing James Bradley's instrument) superseded it fifty years later in 1851, the Ordnance Survey simply continued to use Bradley's.[1]

References

  1. ^ Charles Jennings; "Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End", Little, Brown; 1999; p. 181