Organisations with similar interests

Various societies operate wholly or partly in areas of interest to the International Institution for the History of Surveying and Measurement. Among them are:

• The Scientific Instrument Society
  c/o The Executive Officer, 31 High St, Stanford in the Vale, Faringdon, Oxon SN7 8LH, UK.
  E-mail: sis@hidex.demon.co.uk
• The British Society for the History of Mathematics
• The Royal Astronomical Society
  Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1V 0NL, UK
• The International Map Collectors Society
• The International Society for the History of Science
  E-mail: info@hssonilne.org
• Fachzeitschrift Geomatik Schweiz
  E-mail: info@geomatik.ch
• Society for the history of geodesy in Switzerland
  E-mail: praesident@gggs.ch
• Studiensammlung der Firma Kern E-mail: via contact form on page
• The Surveyors Historical Society
  Roger Woodfill, 300 West High St, Suite 2, Lawrenceberg, Indiana 47025-1912, USA
• Dutch Society on History of Geodesy - De Hollandse Cirkel
• British Cartographic Society
  E-mail admin@cartography.org.uk
• National Maritime Museum
• Royal Observatory Greenwich
  E-mail: astroline@nmm.ac.uk
• The Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers
  E-mail: theclerk@wcsim.co.uk

From Usage du Quarré Geometrique. J De Merliers, 1573. Courtesy Jan de Graeve.