MAPPING INDIA by Chris Spurgeon

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MAPPING INDIA

- Chris Spurgeon

A true tale of balls-out 19th Century Science. Chris explains the 23 year journey of surveyor, William Lambton's Trigonometric mapping of India in the early 1800's.

GIW 3.01.2010

Bio:

By day, Chris Spurgeon is a web developer. By night, Chris mucks about with obsolete technologies, investigates odd corners of the history of science and invention, builds high-powered rockets, and maintains the blog Spurgeonworld focusing on places where science and art meet.

http://www.spurgeonworld.com/

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