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==Longitude and the World-Picture==
 
==Longitude and the World-Picture==
  
[[image:gmap.jpg|Henricus Hondius' 1633 World Map.  Note the truncation of the Mediterranean Sea and the necessity to divide the world into seperate hemispheres.|]]
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[[image:gmap.jpg|thumb|left|Henricus Hondius' 1633 World Map.  Note the distortian of the Mediterranean Sea and the necessity of two seperate hemispheres.]]
 
===Greenwich and the Longitude Prize===
 
===Greenwich and the Longitude Prize===
  

Revision as of 10:36, 26 March 2008

The Marine Chronometer:
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Historical Context

Sundials - The original Real-Time Display

Ptolemy - Projecting the Grid

The Shape of the Earth - Towards a more precise map

Longitude and the World-Picture

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Henricus Hondius' 1633 World Map. Note the distortian of the Mediterranean Sea and the necessity of two seperate hemispheres.

Greenwich and the Longitude Prize

Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation

Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space