Ken Jennings

People are using GPS systems to find millions of little hidden objects throughout the world - often as simple as a piece of Tupperware hidden in the woods. You go to a website, you get the latitude and longitude to get the specific location of a certain specific hiding space, and then you go there and see if you can find it.

American Celebrity

Christopher Columbus

I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.

Italian Explorer

Dennis Crowley

People used to pooh-pooh the idea of a check-in, saying that this wasn't interesting. But when you have 3 billion of those data points, you can take any latitude and longitude anywhere in the world, and I'll tell you what is interesting now, 20 minutes from now, and 6 hours from now.

American Businessman

William Lloyd Garrison

Surely, nothing can be more dangerous than the doctrine that the moral obligations of men change with the latitude and longitude of a place.

American Journalist

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

American Author

Longitude is part of a grid system used to pinpoint locations on Earth.

Geographic Grid

One degree of longitude varies in actual distance depending on where you are on the globe.

Measure of Distance

Longitude is related to time zones, with each zone generally spanning 15 degrees of longitude.

Time Zones

In astronomy, longitude helps to map positions of stars and planets, like on Earth.

Celestial Mapping

Celestial longitude is measured in degrees east or west from the celestial meridian.

East/West Position

Despite sharing the term, celestial longitude differs from Earth's and uses a distinct reference point.

Not Earth's Longitude

 made the first device that could measure the angle between the sun and the horizon during the day, called a sextant. Knowing this angle was important, because it could be compared to the angle back in England at the exact same time. Comparing these two angles was necessary to determine the longitude of the ship.

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 world as the prime meridian zero degrees longitude the dividing line between the eastern and western hemispheres and the home of Greenwich Mean Time through its telescopes the vast expense of space has been explored and studied so how has the work carried out here and at similar

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 what you did you look at their own home right to see if you're lying naked by the swimming pool I wasn't and then the second thing you do is you start looking at places that are familiar to you and somewhat where along that journey you find that when you type in a longitude

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 longitude every three hours so I will demonstrate on myself about this oh here we go let's pretend that I am the lucky bear light is able to track my movements and tell exactly where I am now a lot of people may ask you know why is this important

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 has embarked on a new flying around the world nonstop in a plane of his own design. Able to travel consistently at the incredible speed of one degree longitude around the equator per minute, the plane would take six hours to circle the world.

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 but it shouldn't look like the old system. We agreed that addresses were bad. We knew we wanted something very precise, but GPS coordinates, latitude and longitude, were just too complicated. So we divided the world into three-meter squares.

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 by their latitude and longitude, it literally draws a map of the world. Our modern world is communicating with itself and with each other more than it has at any time in its past. And that communication, that connectivity around the world,

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 sundial anywhere in the world you can furnish it anything that's not on the dial to tell time is its furniture you can furnish it with here some sailboats and anchors and here's the traditional latitude and longitude and it's the

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 He created a world map proportioned so these curved navigational routes would be straight, passing through every line of longitude at the same angle and therefore allowing navigators to set a constant bearing—

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 infrastructure everything not just what's the capital or what's the longitude and latitude it's a very diverse subject and most importantly have fun if you were to visit my