Drawing The Line How Mason And Dixon Surveyed The Most Famous Border In America 2nd Edition Edwin Danson by Edwin Danson 9781119141877, 1119141877 instant download after payment.

• Features numerous updates and revisions reflecting new information that has come to light on surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon
• Reveals the true origin of the survey’s starting point and the actual location of the surveyors’ observatory in Embreeville
• Offers expanded information on Mason and Dixon’s transit of Venus adventures, which would be an important influence on their future work, and on Mason’s final years pursuing a share of the fabulous Longitude prize, and his death in Philadelphia
• Includes a new, more comprehensive appendix describing the surveying methods utilized to establish the Mason-Dixon Line