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The Discovery of Longitude
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Length:
32 minutes
Released:
Aug 13, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
People knew how to find their north-south position even before we had the idea of "latitude." But once people lost sight of land, they didn't have reliable way of figuring out how far east or west they'd gone - how to measure their longitude. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers
Released:
Aug 13, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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