Mar. 10, 2009
Today's Geography Lesson: More Lines of Longitude...
Posted in Narrations
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Today I read about how to measure how far east or west you are of Greenwich, England. There's a certain formula for figuring out such things, but I couldn't figure that out. Long story short, there was a man named John Harrison who had the unimaginable task of devoting his whole life to figuring out how to make a clock that came within 5 seconds a day of the real time.Eventually he suceeded, and everyone lived happily ever after. The end. |
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