Roy Distance between the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and Paris Plate IX map of triangulation, Published 1790
Map of cross-channel triangulation to determine the distance between the Royal Observatories of Greenwich and London. Plate IX from
- Date
- December 31, 1790
- Mapmaker / publisher
- William Roy (1726-1790)
- Place
- Europe
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 11,882 × 5,955 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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