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Greenwich (London) would be a more likely populated place to have had the origin point.
by xnorswap 5y ago
Greenwich (London) would be a more likely populated place to have had the origin point.
- eesmith 5y agoJerusalem during the Middle Ages. "Jerusalem was generally represented in the center of the map." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T_and_O_map "In the center of the world lies Jerusalem, sacred to both Christianity and Judaism." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatus_map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatus_map These maps were also oriented with east at the top (the "orient" in "oriented".)
- Someone 5y agoThat would place the zeroth parallel on something else than the equator (the only great circle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_circle) that continuously gets mapped to itself as the earth rotates). I don’t think that was ever on the table, if only because it would make time reckoning difficult, and one of the goals of the International Meridian Conference was to create a “standard of time reckoning throughout the world” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Conference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Meridian_Confere...))