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25: 42: 157:'s instrument being placed in a room next to that housing James Bradley's instrument) superseded it fifty years later in 1851, the Ordnance Survey simply continued to use Bradley's. 89: 61: 194: 68: 145:. When the first Ordnance Survey map was published in 1801, the official Prime Meridian of Great Britain was the one established by the third 75: 57: 108: 46: 82: 204: 199: 189: 35: 173:
Charles Jennings; "Greenwich: The Place Where Days Begin and End", Little, Brown; 1999; p. 181
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