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    The document discusses geographic coordinates and their history. It describes how cartographers divided the earth into lines of longitude and latitude to locate positions. Longitude runs north-south and measures east-west distance from the prime meridian. Latitude runs east-west and measures north-south distance from the equator. The Greek astronomer Hipparchus first specified location using latitude and longitude in the 2nd century BC. In the 18th century, John Harrison invented the marine chronometer, which allowed navigators to accurately determine longitude at sea.

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    The document discusses geographic coordinates and their history. It describes how cartographers divided the earth into lines of longitude and latitude to locate positions. Longitude runs north-south and measures east-west distance from the prime meridian. Latitude runs east-west and measures north-south distance from the equator. The Greek astronomer Hipparchus first specified location using latitude and longitude in the 2nd century BC. In the 18th century, John Harrison invented the marine chronometer, which allowed navigators to accurately determine longitude at sea.

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    LATITUDES-AND-LONGITUDES

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    The document discusses geographic coordinates and their history. It describes how cartographers divided the earth into lines of longitude and latitude to locate positions. Longitude runs north-south and measures east-west distance from the prime meridian. Latitude runs east-west and measures north-south distance from the equator. The Greek astronomer Hipparchus first specified location using latitude and longitude in the 2nd century BC. In the 18th century, John Harrison invented the marine chronometer, which allowed navigators to accurately determine longitude at sea.

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    GROUP 2

    LYCEL CANLAS – LEADER


    CHRISTY LANOY
    MARIA HELENA MELLOMEDA
    MARIA CRISTINA OMPAD
    ANGEL GRACE GORE
    YURIKA GACAYAN
    MARIA ANGELA CASAMPOL
    The lines on the globe, also known as
    Geographic Lines or Coordinates, are
    networks of imaginary lines used to
    describe and locate positions on the Earth’s
    surface.

    Cartographers and Geographers divided


    the Earth into Longitudes and Latitudes, in
    order to locate points on the globe.
    Longitude and Latitude make up the grid
    system, they serve a crucial role in
    understanding the layout and scale of the area
    represented on the earth surface.

    These lines are parameters or coordinates that


    help determine the location of any place on
    Earth. They constitute a coordinate system or
    scheme to locate or identify geographic
    positions anywhere on the Earth’s surface.
    LONGITUDE Longitude is also known as “meridians.”
    They run North to South from pole to
    pole. These lines are numerical way to
    measure how far a location is East or
    West of a universal vertical line called the
    Prime Meridian.

    Longitude lines are furthest from one to


    another at the equator and meet at the
    poles. In addition, it can be measured in
    degrees, minutes, and seconds.
    LATITUDE
    Latitude is also known as “parallels” of latitude,
    because they run parallel to the equator. Latitudes
    lines are numerical way to measure how far North
    or South of the equator a place is located.

    The equator is the most well known parallel. At 0


    degrees latitude, the Northern and Southern
    hemispheres. From the equator, latitude increases as
    you travel North to South, reaching 90 degrees at
    each pole.
    HIPPARCHUS

    A Greek astronomer (190 – 120 BC), was the first to


    specify location using latitude and longitude as co –
    ordinates. He proposed a zero meridian passing through
    Rhodes. The, further suggested that absolute time be
    determined by observing lunar eclipses, measuring the
    time when a lunar eclipse started and finished, and
    finding the difference between this absolute time and
    local time.
    HARRISON’S CLOCK

    Harrison, eventually produced his marine chronometer, H4, a spring


    driven clock that could measure longitude to within the half – degree
    required for the £20, 000 prize.

    On a voyage from England to Jamaica in 1761 – 1762, H4 lost just


    five seconds in over two months at sea. It was now possible for a
    navigator to determine local time by measuring high noon, and
    compare this to the absolute time, which had been set on an accurate
    chronometer at the start of the voyage.
    INGAT,
    SALAMAT
    PO!

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