Who invented the system of latitudes and longitudes in 2nd century a.d?
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Who invented the system of latitudes and longitudes, measuring latitudes using the island of Rhodes in 2nd century a.d? Who invented the system of latitudes and longitudes, measuring latitude from the equator in 2nd century a.d?
Marinus Marinus of Tyre
Claudius Ptolemy Ptolemy
History of longitude Geographic coordinate system
Who invented the system of latitudes and longitudes in 2nd century a.d?
History of longitude Geography (Ptolemy) Geographic coordinate system Hipparchus Ptolemy History of cartography Almagest History of navigation Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi Indian astronomy
The history of longitude is a record of the effort, by astronomers, cartographers 
and navigators ... Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC first proposed a <b>system of</b> 
<b>latitude and</b> ... By the <b>2nd century</b> BC Hipparchus was the first to use such a 
<b>system</b> to ... Christiaan Huygens - <b>invention</b> of pendulum clock and a spring 
balance for&nbsp;... The Geography also known by its Latin names as the Geographia and the 
Cosmographia, is a gazetteer, an atlas, and a treatise on cartography, compiling 
the geographical knowledge of the <b>2nd</b>-<b>century</b> Roman Empire. Originally written 
by Claudius Ptolemy in Greek at Alexandria around <b>AD</b> 150, ... The gazetteer 
section of Ptolemy&#39;s work provided <b>latitude and longitude</b>&nbsp;... A geographic coordinate <b>system</b> is a coordinate <b>system</b> that enables every 
location on Earth to ... dead reckoning. In the 1st or <b>2nd century</b>, Marinus of Tyre 
compiled an extensive gazetteer and ... The <b>latitude and longitude</b> on a map 
<b>made</b> against a local datum may not be the same as one obtained from a GPS 
receiver. Hipparchus of Nicaea was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. 
He is ... In the <b>2nd</b> and 3rd <b>centuries</b> coins were <b>made</b> in his honour in Bithynia 
that ... Hipparchus was amongst the first to calculate a heliocentric <b>system</b>, but he 
... by subtraction of two and two-thirds degrees from the <b>longitudes</b> of Ptolemy&#39;s&nbsp;... Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geographer and 
astrologer. ... <b>The second</b> is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the 
geographic ... The 9th-<b>century</b> Persian astronomer Abu Maʿshar presents 
Ptolemy as a ... As with the model of the Solar <b>System</b> in the Almagest, Ptolemy 
put all this&nbsp;... Modern maps of the old and new worlds <b>developed</b> through the Age of Discovery
. In the 21st <b>century</b>, with the advent of the computing age and information age,&nbsp;... The Almagest is a <b>2nd</b>-<b>century</b> Greek-language mathematical and astronomical 
treatise on the ... This <b>system</b> is believed to have originated with Hipparchus. ... 
Many of the <b>longitudes</b> and <b>latitudes</b> have been corrupted in the various ... 
Martianus Capella (5th century <b>AD</b>) put Mercury and Venus in motion around the 
Sun. The history of navigation is the history of seamanship, the art of directing vessels 
upon the open ... Sailors navigating in the Mediterranean <b>made</b> use of several 
techniques to ... In the mid-1st <b>century AD</b> Lucan writes of Pompey who questions 
a sailor ... and faulty estimates of <b>latitude and longitude</b> on contemporary charts. Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī Arabized as al-Khwarizmi with al- and 
formerly Latinized as Algorithmi, was a Persian polymath who produced works in 
mathematics, astronomy, and geography. Around 820 <b>CE</b> he was appointed as 
the astronomer and head of the library ... The book opens with the list of <b>latitudes</b> 
<b>and longitudes</b>, in order of &quot;weather&nbsp;... Indian astronomy has a long history stretching from pre-historic to modern times. 
Some of the earliest roots of Indian astronomy can be dated to the period of Indus 
Valley Civilization or earlier. Astronomy later <b>developed</b> as a discipline of 
Vedanga or one of the &quot;auxiliary ... Greek astronomical ideas began to enter India 
in the 4th <b>century BCE</b>&nbsp;...
Hipparchus
History of longitude