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Paul Murdin
Cambridge 800 Series: Full Meridian of Glory
Hay Festival 2009,
The Cambridge professor tells the tale of the astronomers and the geodesists tasked with establishing the definitive longitudinal base in the Observatory in Paris – the Perilous Adventures in the Competition to Measure the Earth.