History of  Surveying and Measurement

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Journals and periodicals

From Misura della Base Trigonometria della via Appia. A Secchi, 1858. Courtesy Jan de Graeve.

The are no journals devoted solely to matters of interest in the history of surveying and measurement. There are however isolated technical papers in various journals in the fields of  surveying, mathematics, astronomy and navigation.  The only regular column that we are aware of is that by Silvio Bedini in the American surveying journal Professional Surveyor. This column started in 1985 and is still going on a bi-monthly basis. Among journals that contain occasional articles of interest are:

• Survey Review

• XYZ. Revue de L'Association Française de Topographie

• American Surveyor

• Professional Surveyor

• Geomatik Schweiz

• Annals of Science

• Australian Surveyor

• Geomatica

• S African Survey Journal

• Imago Mundi

• Journal Institute of Navigation

• Journals of the Royal Astronomical Society

• Journal for History of Astronomy

• Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society

• Archives of History of Exact Sciences

• ISIS

• Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

• Cartographica Helvetica

In addition the Archives or Proceedings of the conferences of a range of organisations can be a fruitful source for research.

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