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 Roy ( la 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