Concept information
Preferred term
earth's coordinate grid
Definition
- Gridding the globe with abstract lines has been put forward since the 2nd century BC, when Hipparchus suggested parallels of latitude and meridians of longitude constructed over a spherical model of Earth. Three hundred years later, Claudius Ptolemy refined these ideas and produced map projections with a graticule of longitude and latitude lines. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Earth's Coordinate Grid]
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-WXPG1QKJ-J
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