lines of longitude
51MERCATOR, Gerardus — (1512 1594) Gerardus Mercator, a transforming figure in the history of cartography, devised the projection that bears his name when he created his world map of 1569 that revolutionized both mapmaking and, by extension, the way people came to… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
52Principal meridians of Alaska — BLM map of the meridians The five principal meridians of Alaska are the Copper River Meridian (established 1905), Fairbanks Meridian (adopted 1910), Kateel River Meridian (adopted 1911), Seward Meridian (adopted 1956) and Umiat Meridian (adopted… …
53Mercator , Gerardus — (1512–1594) Dutch cartographer and geographer Mercator, originally named Kremer, was born at Rupelmonde, now in Belgium. At the University of Louvain (1530–32) he was a pupil of Gemma Frisius. After learning the basic skills of an instrument… …
54plane chart — noun Etymology: plane (V) : a depiction of a small portion of the earth s surface as plane with meridians and parallels of latitude appearing as two systems of straight lines at right angles and all arc degrees as equal * * * plane chart noun A… …
55Charles F. Dowd — (1825–1904) was a co principal (with his wife Harriet M. Dowd) of the Temple Grove Ladies Seminary (now Skidmore College) in Saratoga Springs, New York. He was the first person to propose multiple time zones for any country, those for the… …
56Principal meridian — Figure 1. This BLM map depicts the principal meridians and baselines used for surveying states (colored) in the PLSS. A meridian is an imaginary line on the Earth s surface from the North Pole to the South Pole that connects all locations with a… …
57Meridian of Antwerp — The Meridian of Antwerp is an analog to the Paris Meridian and Prime Meridian, running through the city of Antwerp, in Flanders, Belgium, and forming the 0° longitude upon which some Belgian maps were based. This is also where Gerardus Mercator… …
58Bipyramid — For Dipyramid, see mountain and Dipyramid (Alaska). Set of bipyramids (Example hexagonal form) Faces 2n triangles Edges 3n Vertices n + 2 …
59Phase Space (book) — Infobox Book name = Phase Space author = Stephen Baxter cover artist = country = Great Britain language = English series = Manifold genre = Science fiction publisher = Voyager release date = 2003 media type = Print (Hardback Paperback) pages =… …
60Animated mapping — is the application of animation, either computer or video, to add a temporal component to a map displaying change in some dimension. Most commonly the change is shown over time, generally at a greatly changed scale (either much faster than real… …
