Map #40: Latitude and Longitude: The Keys to Explaining the World

Longitude (distance-E-W)                Latitude (distance N-S)

Navigational enterprises in Europe and its empires, 1730–1850  is a dense but important text revealing the many approaches to longitude during the eighteenth century, including French clock makers Ferdinand Berthoud and Pierre le Royla meilleure information est en français).

The Author’s informational page on Latitude hosted at Rice University.


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100 Sources in World History