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CHAPTER 3
organized chronologically by date
published sources only

PRE-1800

Cassini de Thury, César-François. Verdun [map]. 1:86,400. Carte de France No. 110. Paris, 1760.

Cassini de Thury, César-François. Index to Carte de France. Paris, 1797.

1800s

Henry, Col. “Mémoire sur la projection des cartes géographiques, adoptée au Dépôt Général de la Guerre.” Mémorial du Dépôt Général de la Guerre 2 (1803–1805 and 1810).

1810s

Puissant, Louis. Supplément au deuxième livre du traité de topographie, contenant la théorie des projections des cartes. Paris: Courcier, 1810.

Gibson, Robert et al. A treatise on practical surveying. Baltimore, 1818.

1850s

Emory, William. Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Washington DC, 1857.

1870s

André, George. The Draughtsman’s Handbook of Plan and Map Drawing. London, 1874.

Darwin, G. H. “On the Precession of a Viscous Spheroid, and on the Remote History of the Earth.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 170 (1879).

1880s

Tissot, Nicolas Auguste. Mémoire sur la représentation des surfaces et les projections des cartes géographiques. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1881.

Dépôt de la Guerre. Montdidier [map]. 1:80,000. Carte d’État major No. 21. Paris, 1885.

Walling, H. F. “Topographic Surveys of States.” Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies 5 (Mar 1886).

1890s

Hatt, P. Des coordonnées rectangulaires et de leur emploi dans les calculs de triangulations. Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1893.

Report of the Sixth International Geographical Congress, Held in London, 1895. London, 1896.

1900s

Morrison, Gabriel James. Maps, Their Uses and Construction. London: Edward Stanford, 1901.

Vidal de la Blache, Paul. “La carte de France au 50000e.” Annales de géographie 13 (1904).

Close, Charles F. Text Book of Topographical and Geographical Surveying. London: HMSO, 1905.

Hayford, John. Geodesy: The Figure of the Earth and Isostasy from Measurements in the United States. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1909.

New York Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Report on the Triangulation of Greater New York. New York: M.B. Brown Press, 1909.

1910s

Hayford, John. Geodesy: Supplementary Investigation in 1909 of the Figure of the Earth and Isostasy. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1910.

Courtier, A. “Choix d’un système de répresentation pour la rédaction des levés hydrographiques.” Annales hydrographiques 32 (1912).

Courtier, A. “Exposé de la projection de Lambert.” Annales hydrographiques ser. 3, vol 17, for 1940–1945 (1946 [orig. 1916]).

Manual for the Artillery Orientation Officer [translated from French original]. Washington DC: USGPO, 1917.

McCaw, G. T. “Resection in Survey.” The Geographical Journal 52 (Aug 1918).

Service Géographique de l’Armée. Moreuil [map], 9th ed. 1:20,000. 5 Aug 1918.

Bowie, William and Oscar Adams. Grid System for Progressive Maps in the United States, US Coast and Geodetic Survey Special Publication No. 59. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1919.

Hinks, Arthur R. “German War Maps and Survey.” The Geographical Journal 53 (Jan 1919).

“Le Service Géographique de l’Armée et la cartographie de guerre.” La Géographie 32 (1919).

Winterbotham, H. “Geographical Work with the Army in France.” The Geographical Journal 54 (July 1919).

1920s

Aultman, Dwight E. “Maps and Map Firing.” The Field Artillery Journal 10 (July–Aug 1920).

[Jack, E. M.] Report on Survey on the Western Front 1914–1918. London: HMSO, 1920.

Pallotta, Giraloma. “The Accompaniment of Infantry in the Attack.” The Field Artillery Journal 10 (July–Aug 1920).

Eckert, Max. Die Kartenwissenschaft, vol. 1. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1921.

Hinks, Arthur R. “On the Projection Adopted for the Allied Maps on the Western Front.” The Geographical Journal 57 (June 1921).

Bowie, William. “Propositions des États-Unis.” Bulletin géodésique [1] (May 1922).

“Détail des questions proposées pour l’inscription à l’ordre du jour de la section de géodésie.” In Union Géodésique et Géophysique Internationale, Première assemblée générale: Rome, mai 1922: section de géodésie. Toulouse: Édouard Privat, 1922.

Roussilhe, H. “Emploi des coordonnées rectangulaires stéréographiques pour le calcul de la triangulation dans un rayon de 560 kilomètres autour de l’origine.” Travaux de l’Association internationale de géodésie 1 (Paris, 1923 [presented 1922]).

“Comptes rendus de la première assemblée générale” (Rome, 1922), Bulletin géodésique 2 (Apr 1923).

Service Géographique de l’Armée. La nouvelle carte de France. Paris: SGA, 1923.

Hinks, Arthur R. “The Grid in Civil Use.” The Geographical Journal 63 (June 1924).

Martonne, Emmanuel de. “Pour la carte de France au 50000e.” Annales de géographie 33 (1924).

McCaw, G. T. “The Proposed Adoption of a Standard Figure of the Earth.” The Geographical Journal 64 (Aug 1924).

Roussilhe, H. “Rapport sur les procédés de calcul en coordonnées rectangulaires et sur les systèmes de représentation plane de l’ellipsoïde applicables à la triangulation.” Travaux de l’Association internationale de géodésie 4 (Paris, 1927 [presented 1924]).

“Comptes rendus de la deuxième assemblée générale” (Madrid, 1924), Bulletin géodésique 7 (1925).

Lamotte, Col. “Réponses au questionnaire du 1er avril 1924.” Bulletin géodésique 8 (1925).

Responses to IUGG inquiry on the International Ellipsoid. Bulletin géodésique 8 (1925).

Adams, O. S. “The Readjustment of the First-Order Triangulation in the Western Half of the United States.” Bulletin of the National Research Council 11 (Nov 1926).

Adams, O. S. “Loop-Closures Resulting from the Readjustment of the First-Order Triangulation in the Western Part of the United States.” Bulletin of the National Research Council (July 1927).

Breed, Charles and George Hosmer. The Principles and Practice of Surveying, 5th ed. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1927.

Roussilhe, H. “Rapport général sur les systèmes de représentation plane de l’ellipsoïde terrestre.” Travaux de l’Association internationale de géodésie 6 (Paris, 1928 [presented 1927]).

Steers, J. A. An Introduction to the Study of Map Projections, 13th ed. London: University of London Press, 1962 [orig. 1927].

Comptes rendus of the committee on projections from the 1927 meeting in Prague, Bulletin géodésique 18 (Apr–June 1928).

Perrier, Georges. “Note au sujet du calcul des tables de l’ellipsoïde de référence international.” Bulletin géodésique 18 (1928): 361–369.

Report of the commission of projections. Bulletin géodésique 17 (Jan–Mar 1928).

1930s

Adams, Oscar. The Bowie Method of Triangulation Adjustment, US Coast and Geodetic Survey special publication 159. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1930.

Bowie, William. “Some International Problems in Geodesy.” Bulletin géodésique 26 (Apr–June 1930).

Young, A. E. “Conformal Map Projections.” The Geographical Journal 76 (Oct 1930).

L[ambert], W. D. “The International Geodetic and Geophysical Union.” Science 73, no. 1879 (2 Jan 1931).

Roussilhe, H. “Rapport sur les projections.” Travaux de l’Association internationale de géodésie 8 (1931).

Albrecht, E. W. “First-Order Geodetic Surveys.” Civil Engineering 2 (June 1932).

H[inks], A. R. Review of Physics of the Earth–II. The Figure of the Earth by the US National Research Council. The Geographical Journal 79 (Mar 1932): 239–241.

Syme, George. “Geodetic Control for North Carolina Highways.” Civil Engineering 2 (Mar 1932).

“Professor Kissam Directs Unemployed Engineers.” Princeton Herald, 29 Dec 1933.

Weigel, K. “Jonction des réseaux de triangulation des grand continents.” Bulletin géodésique 38 (1933): 198–209.

Winterbotham, H. St. J. L. “The Use of the New Grid on Ordnance Survey Maps.” The Geographical Journal 82 (July 1933).

Adams, Oscar. “Plane Coordinate-Systems for Individual States.” Transactions, American Geophysical Union (1934): 36–38.

Kane, Frank, Jr. “Geodetic Surveys will be Extended.” New York Times, 5 Aug 1934.

Syme, George F. “North Carolina’s Geodetic Control System.” The Military Engineer 26 (Jan–Feb 1934): 20–24.

Winterbotham, H. St. J. L. The National Plans. London: HMSO, 1934.

Adams, Oscar and Charles Claire. Manual of plane-coordinate computation. US Coast and Geodetic Survey special publication 193. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1935.

Adams, Oscar and Charles Claire. Manual of traverse computation on the Lambert grid. US Coast and Geodetic Survey special publication 194. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1935.

Adams, Oscar and Charles Claire. Manual of traverse computation on the transverse Mercator grid. US Coast and Geodetic Survey special publication 195. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1935.

Callan, J. A. C. “Local Control Surveys in Alabama.” Civil Engineering 5 (Dec 1935): 790–793.

Comptes rendus of the commission on projections from the 1933 meeting in Lisbon, Bulletin géodésique 45 (Jan–Mar 1935).

Comptes rendus of the commission on the European recalculation from the 1933 meeting in Lisbon, Bulletin géodésique 45 (Jan–Mar 1935).

Dodds, John S. “State Surveying and Mapping Bureaus.” Civil Engineering 5 (Apr 1935).

Kissam, Philip. “Function of a State Surveying Board.” Civil Engineering 5 (July 1935).

Kissam, Philip. “New Jersey Adopts Plane-Coordinate System.” Civil Engineering 5 (Nov 1935).

Martin, Jean. “Comment réaliser la nouvelle carte de France à 1:50000.” Annales de géographie 44 (1935).

“The Use of Geodetic Control for Boundary Surveys (A Symposium).” Geodetic Letter (US Coast and Geodetic Survey) 2, no. 5 (May 1935).

Kissam, Philip. “Local Control Surveys in New Jersey.” Civil Engineering 6 (Mar 1936).

“Ordnance Survey Maps: Discussion, with special reference to the Grid System, at the Afternoon Meeting of the Society, 9 December 1935.” The Geographical Journal 87 (Apr 1936): 308–327.

Service Géographique de l’Armée. Rapport sur les travaux exécutés du 1er août 1914 au 31 décembre 1919. Paris: SGA, 1936.

Tardi, Pierre. “Étude d’un système de projection de Gauss en fuseaux de 6° d’amplitude, pouvant s’appliquer à l’ensemble du continent africain.” annex to “Rapport sur les projections.” Travaux de l’Association internationale de géodésie 14 (1938 [presented 1936]).

“To Press Mapping Plan.” New York Times, 10 Mar 1936.

Adams, Oscar. “Development of State Grid Systems.” Civil Engineering 7 (Jan 1937): 33–37.

Hemple, H. W. “Cooperation of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Works Progress Administration in the Conduct of Geodetic Control-Surveys.” Transactions, American Geophysical Union (1937): 63–66.

Kissam, Philip. “An Illustration of the Utility of State Plane-Coordinate Systems.” Transactions of the American Geophysical Union (1937): 93–96.

Kissam, Philip. “The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Property Owner.” The Scientific Monthly 44 (Apr 1937).

Kissam, Philip. “The Utilization of Plane Coordinates in New Jersey.” Geodetic Letter 1 (Jan 1937).

Lambert, Walter D. “Report of the Association of Geodesy.” Science 85, no. 2196 (29 Jan 1937).

Perrier, Georges. “Étude d’une compensation d’ensemble du réseau européen.” Bulletin géodésique 53 (Jan–Mar 1937).

Le service géographique de l’armée: son histoire, son organisation, ses travaux. Paris: SGA, 1938.

New York State Planning Council. A State System of Plane Coordinates. Albany, 1938.

Comptes rendus of the commission of projections from the 1936 meeting in Edinburgh, Bulletin géodésique 61 (Jan.–Mar 1939).

Comptes rendus of the commission on the European recalculation from the 1936 meeting in Edinburgh, Bulletin géodésique 61 (1939).

“Enquête sur l’emploi de l’ellipsoïde de référence international.” Bulletin géodésique 61 (1939).

Nörlund, N. E. and J. de Graaff Hunter. “Note on the Adjustment of the European Network of Triangulation.” Bulletin géodésique 61 (1939): 261–272.

1940s

Perrier, Georges. “Geographic Service in the French Armies during the War, 1914–1918.” The Military Engineer 32 (July–Aug 1940): 266–270.

Jordan, Wilhelm (with revisions by Otto Eggert), Handbuch der Vermessungskunde, 8th ed., vol. 3, book 2, Sphäroidische Berechnungen, konforme Abbildung des Erdellipsoids, und Aufgaben der Erdmessung. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1941.

Greenhood, David. Mapping. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964 [originally Down to Earth: Mapping for Everybody, 1944].

“Louisiana Adopts Coordinate System.” Civil Engineering 14 (Nov 1944).

Ober, Beverly. “Use of Coordinates in Police Work.” Surveying and Mapping 4 (Apr 1944).

United States War Department. Orientation for Artillery. Technical Manual 44-225. Washington, DC: USGPO, 30 June 1944.

Mitchell, Hugh and Lansing Simmons. The State Coordinate Systems (A Manual for Surveyors). US Coast and Geodetic Survey special publication 235. Washington, DC: USGPO, 1945.

Tardi, Pierre. Obituary of Georges Perrier. Bulletin géodésique (1946): 18–21.

“Virginia Legislators Don’t Understand Plane Coordinate Bill but Pass It Just the Same.” Surveying and Mapping (Jan–Mar 1946): 53.

Byrd, W. O. “The State Coordinate Systems.” Surveying and Mapping (July–Dec 1947).

Edmonds, James, ed. Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1918, vol. 4. London: HMSO, 1947.

Marshall, Oscar J. and Myron T. Jones. “State Bureaus of Maps and Surveys Aid Planning of Engineering Projects.” Civil Engineering (Apr 1947): 40–43.

Miles, Wilfrid, ed. Military Operations: France and Belgium, 1917: The Battle of Cambrai. London: HMSO, 1948.

Mills, W. H. “‘Location by Agreement,’” The Military Engineer 40 (1948).

Biernacki, Franciszek. Theory of Representation of Surfaces for Surveyors and Cartographers, trans. from Polish. Warsaw, 1965 [orig. 1949].

“Comptes rendus de l’assemblée générale d’Oslo, section des triangulations” (1948), Bulletin géodésique 11 (1949).

Dixon, Charles M. “A Practical Application of a Geodetic Control Survey and State Coordinate System.” Surveying and Mapping 9 (Apr–June 1949).

Hough, Floyd. “European First Order Triangulation and its Adjustment.” Photogrammetric Engineering 15 (Mar 1949).

1950s

O’Keefe, John. “The Universal Transverse Mercator Grid and Projection.” The Professional Geographer 4 (Sept 1952).

Berry, Ralph Moore. “Compulsory Ties to State Plane Coordinates?” Surveying and Mapping (July–Sept 1954).

Straßer, Georg. Ellipsoidische Parameter der Erdfigur (1800–1950). München: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1957.

Washington Bureau of Surveys and Maps. Washington’s Extended Use of State Plane Coordinates. Olympia, 1957.

Halliday, G. H. “Surveying for Title Purposes in South Africa.” Surveying and Mapping (Sept 1959).

“La vie et l’œuvre de l’ingénieur général André Courtier (1877–1958).” Annales Hydrographiques ser 4, vol 12 (1963–1964 [orig. 1959]): 1–4.

1960s

Malchow, S. “Cadastral Survey and its Geodetic Foundation in Swiss Practice.” Surveying and Mapping (June 1963).

Watts, Robert G. “Simplicity of State Plane Coordinate System in Surveying.” Surveying and Mapping (Dec 1965).

Colvocoresses, Alden. “A Unified Plane Coordinate Reference System.” Surveying and Mapping (Dec 1967).

Martin, John W. “The Use of Coordinates in Land Surveying.” Surveying and Mapping (Sept 1968).

Albrecht, Oskar. Das Kriegsvermessungswesen während des Weltkrieges 1914–18. München: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1969.

1970s

Kevles, Daniel. “‘Into Hostile Political Camps:’ The Reorganization of International Science in World War I.” Isis 62 (1971): 47–60.

Harley, J. B. Ordnance Survey Maps: A Descriptive Manual. Southampton: Ordnance Survey, 1975.

McGrath, Gerald. “‘From Hills to Hotine,’” The Cartographic Journal 13 (June 1976).

Dracup, Joseph.“The New Adjustment of the North American Datum.” ACSM Bulletin (Nov 1977).

Dehlinger, Peter. Marine Gravity. Elsevier, 1978.

1980s

Konvitz, Josef. Cartography in France, 1660–1848. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Snyder, John. Map Projections: A Working Manual, US Geological Survey Professional Paper 1395. Washington: USGPO, 1987.

United States Geological Survey. Solomons Island [map]. 1:24,000. 7.5 Minute Series. Washington DC: USGS, 1987.

1990s

Bellamy, Christopher. “The Russian Artillery and the Origins of Indirect Fire.” The Journal of Soviet Military Studies 3 (1990).

Chasseaud, Peter. “British Artillery and Trench Maps on the Western Front 1914–1918.” The Map Collector (1990).

Maling, D. H. Coordinate Systems and Map Projections, 2nd ed. Oxford: Pergamon, 1992.

Dastrup, Boyd. The Field Artillery. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.

Colvocoresses, Alden P. “The Gridded Map.” Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing 63 (Apr 1997).

Edney, Matthew. Mapping an Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Lowrie, William. Fundamentals of Geophysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Snyder, John and Harry Steward. Bibliography of Map Projections, 2nd ed., US Geological Survey Bulletin 1856. Washington, 1997.

Snyder, John. Flattening the Earth: Two Thousand Years of Map Projections. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Scott, James. Seeing like a State. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Chasseaud, Peter. Artillery’s Astrologers: A History of British Survey & Mapping on the Western Front, 1914–1918. Lewes: Mapbooks, 1999.

Oreskes, Naomi. The Rejection of Continental Drift. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

2000s

Burnett, D. Graham. Masters of All They Surveyed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Macdonald, A. “Two Continents, One Meridian, Two Visionaries, One Goal.” Survey Review 35 (Jan 2000).

Chasseaud, Peter. “German Maps and Survey on the Western Front, 1914–1918.” The Cartographic Journal 38 (Dec 2001).

Mugnier, Clifford. “The French Republic” [Grids and Datums], Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing (Jan 2001).

Fares, Adib. “The Cadastral System in Lebanon Comparing to the other International Systems.” Paper presented at the 22nd International Congress of the Fédération Internationale des Géomètres, Washington DC, Apr 2002.

Terrall, Mary. The Man Who Flattened the Earth: Maupertuis and the Sciences in the Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Bailey, J. B. A. Field Artillery and Firepower. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2004.

Monmonier, Mark. Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Knox County Historical Society. “Oscar Sherman Adams.” 2007? Available at http://www.knoxhistory.org/authors/adams.html.