Fractions of a Square Kilometer
James Coleman
A kilometer square was drawn surrounding two major panoramic observational devices on the Waterloo battlefield. The Lion’s Mound is a 43-meter tall earthen observation hill constructed immediately following the battle from 1822-1825. The adjacent rotund building was designed to house the panorama painting depicting the scene of the battle by artist Louis Dumoulin in 1912. The square was surveyed using differential leveling survey techniques and the resulting data was recorded and formatted into topographic sections, then mathematically transformed through the shared circle of reflection between the two observational elements to establish the base geometry for a final proposed monument