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The Principal Triangulation of Britain was the first high-precision triangulation survey of the whole of Great Britain (including Ireland), carried out between 1791 and 1853 under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance. The aim of the survey was to establish precise geographical coordinates of almost 300 significant landmarks which could be used as the fixed points of local topographic surveys from which maps could be drawn. In addition there was a purely scientific aim in providing precise data for geodetic calculations such as the determination of the length of meridian arcs and the figure of the Earth. Such a survey had been proposed by William Roy (1726–1790) on his completion of the Anglo-French Survey but it was only after his death that the Board of Ordnance initiated the trigonometr

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  • التثليث الرئيسي لبريطانيا العظمى (ar)
  • Trigonometrische Vermessung von Großbritannien und Irland (de)
  • Triangulation principale de la Grande-Bretagne (fr)
  • Principal Triangulation of Great Britain (en)
  • Eerste driehoeksmeting van Groot-Brittannië (nl)
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  • كان مشروع التثليث الرئيسي لبريطانيا مشروع تثليث تم بين عام 1783 وحوالي عام 1853 بإيعاز من مدير هيئة المساحة الجنرال ويليام روي (1726 - 1790). (ar)
  • De Eerste driehoeksmeting van Groot-Brittannië (Engels: Principal Triangulation of Great Britain) was een project dat als doel had het hele Verenigd Koninkrijk met wetenschappelijke precisie op te meten. Het project werd in 1784 gestart op initiatief van de Britse landmeter William Roy en het werd in 1858 voltooid. (nl)
  • Die Trigonometrische Vermessung von Großbritannien und Irland (englisch Principal Triangulation of Great Britain), die auf die Englisch-Französische Trigonometrische Vermessung von 1784 bis 1790 folgte und von 1791 bis 1853 dauerte, war die erste Vermessung durch Triangulation von ganz Großbritannien und Irland. Durch sie begann die Tätigkeit des Ordnance Survey. In späteren Jahren dehnte , der 27 Jahre lang Superintendent des Survey war, das Netz bis nach Schottland und Irland aus. Er starb kurz vor der Fertigstellung des Abschlussberichts. (de)
  • The Principal Triangulation of Britain was the first high-precision triangulation survey of the whole of Great Britain (including Ireland), carried out between 1791 and 1853 under the auspices of the Board of Ordnance. The aim of the survey was to establish precise geographical coordinates of almost 300 significant landmarks which could be used as the fixed points of local topographic surveys from which maps could be drawn. In addition there was a purely scientific aim in providing precise data for geodetic calculations such as the determination of the length of meridian arcs and the figure of the Earth. Such a survey had been proposed by William Roy (1726–1790) on his completion of the Anglo-French Survey but it was only after his death that the Board of Ordnance initiated the trigonometr (en)
  • La triangulation principale de la Grande-Bretagne (en anglais : Principal Triangulation of Great Britain) est le premier relevé trigonométrique de haute précision de l'ensemble de la Grande-Bretagne (y compris l'Irlande), réalisé entre 1791 et 1853, sous les auspices du Board of Ordnance. Le but de ce travail est d'établir les coordonnées géographiques précises de près de 300 points de repère significatifs qui pourraient être utilisés comme points fixes de relevés topographiques locaux, à partir desquels des cartes pourraient être établies. En outre, un objectif purement scientifique consiste à fournir des données précises pour les calculs géométriques tels que la détermination de la longueur des arcs de méridiens et la figure de la Terre. Une telle enquête avait été proposée par (en) (17 (fr)
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