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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|Henricus Hondius' 1633 World Map.  Note the truncation of the Mediterranean Sea and the necessity to divide the world into seperate hemispheres.|]]
 
===Greenwich and the Longitude Prize===
 
===Greenwich and the Longitude Prize===
  

Revision as of 10:26, 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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Greenwich and the Longitude Prize

Timekeeping, Synchronicity, and Nodal Representation

Legacies of the flat representation of Curvilinear Space