Quotes About Longitude

It was the eternal contest for reputation and prestige that encouraged Londoners to endow new hospitals or write great plays or crack the problem of longitude for the navy. No matter how agreeable your surroundings, you couldn't get famous by sitting around in some village, and that is still true today. You need people to acknowledge what you have done; you need a gallery for the applause; and above all you need to know what everyone else is up to.

National boundaries are as invisible as meridians of longitude, or the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. The boundaries are arbitrary. The planet is real.

This is it, the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning longitude and latitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

I pace along the edge of the marsh, too afraid to follow her, not for the first time. This is it, this is the geographical limit of how far I'll go for Ossie. We are learning latitude and longitude in school, and it makes my face burn that I can graph the coordinates of my own love and courage with such damning precision.

Could animals have migrated to a part of the world they were previously familiar with (latitude and longitude)? We've always wondered this. If a continent ended up at a particular place on the globe, and migratory animals thrived in those former areas before continental movement, is it possible that some attempted to migrate back to that original latitude and longitude?

Why, sir, she is to bear me a son, who shall restore the art of embalming and the old Roman manner of burying their dead; and for the benefit of posterity, he is to discover the longitude, so long sought for in vain.

Among the many spots used by philosophers and astronomers over the centuries to mark the meridian for zero degrees longitude were Ferro, in the Canary Islands; Ujjain, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh; the "agonic line" (a line along which true north and magnetic north coincide, but not forever) that passed through the Azores; the Paris Observatory; the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; the White House; and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.

spit of sand is in 52 degrees latitude, 521?2 longitude, and from the spit of sand to the other part

She had sunk at latitude 77°15 N, longitude 155° E, a little more than seven hundred miles south of the North Pole.

What poor, mean trash this whole business of human virtue is! A mere matter, for the most part, of latitude and longitude, and geographical position, acting with natural temperament. The greater part is nothing but an accident.

32°46? latitude, 171°91? longitude

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

Captain Prince shrugged. "Not when you're sure of your longitude.

Newton died in 1727, and therefore did not live to see the great longitude prize awarded at last, four decades later, to the self-educated maker of an oversized pocket watch.

Today, the latitude and longitude lines govern with more authority than I could have imagined forty-odd years ago, for they stay fixed as the world changes it's configuration underneath them—with continents adrift across a widening sea, the national boundaries repeatedly redrawn by war or peace.

com o correr dos séculos perdi o segredo do Egito, quando eu me movia em longitude, latitude e altitude com ação energética dos elétrons, prótons, nêutrons, no fascínio que é a palavra e sua sombra". Isso que te escrevi é um desenho eletrônico e não tem passado ou futuro: é simplesmente já.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

It was a careworn face. But most of the lines, if followed back like a trail, would lead to happiness. To the faces a face made when laughing or smiling, or sitting quietly enjoying the day. Though some of those lines led elsewhere. Into a wilderness, into the wild. Where terrible things had happened. Some of the lines of his face led to events inhuman and abominable. To horrific sights. To unspeakable acts. Some of them his. The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life.

The lines of his face were the longitude and latitude of his life. The

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

is measured; thus, the departure between the meridians of T and T' is the number of miles corresponding to the distance Tn in