What is "longitudes"

Usage examples of "longitudes".

It is clear, too, that they had an instrument of navigation for accurately determining longitudes that was far superior to anything possessed by the peoples of ancient, medieval or modern times until the second half of the eighteenth century.

It is therefore surprising and unsettling to come across vastly older maps which give latitudes and longitudes with modern precision.

He could only have done this if he had precise information on the relative longitudes of a great many places scattered all the way from Galway in Ireland to the eastern bend of the Don in Russia.

Covering a vast area of the north as far as Greenland, it locates a great many widely scattered places at latitudes and longitudes which are ‘amazingly correct’.

He discovered that the celestial longitudes were different and that this difference was of a magnitude exceeding that attributable to errors of observation.

This has no connection with longitudes, I will explain you how good I do my work, and you will see it is different.

If God did not forbid, I would bet that in the future all will go to seek longitudes and all other phenomena with the perpendiculum.

Ferrante consults his peers at court, and discovers that Mazarin can be approached through the young Colbert, to whom he sends a letter hinting at an English threat and the matter of longitudes (knowing nothing about them, and having heard them mentioned only once, by Richelieu).

Ferrante, who truly knew little or nothing of the matter of longitudes, could not imagine that Mazarin had sent Roberto on that ship only to learn something that to him now seemed ob­vious, so he concluded that what Roberto was really meant to reveal to the Cardinal was the location of the Islands of Solomon.

It was the extraordinary vicissitude of Roberto that would guarantee also for her an immortality that the warp of longitudes would not otherwise have granted her.

In fact, Muhleman's giant radar system sees a reflection when some longitudes of Titan are turned toward Earth, and not at other longitudes.

But perhaps this is the resolution of our dilemma: Titan as a world of large circular hydrocarbon lakes, more of them in some longitudes than in others.

You need radio telescopes distributed evenly over many longitudes if you don't want gaps.

Some cautioned against working with the Soviet data, on grounds that they might be falsified or fraudulent, although in the longitudes of overlap they agreed well with the Iraqi, Indian, Chinese, and Japanese data.

Against the light of the burning oil those longitudes were thin and crisp as a draftsman's ink-strokes.