GEA 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Northern Hemisphere, Music Theory, Map Projection
8 Jun 2017
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Eratosthenes was a greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He is best known for being the first person to calculate the circumference of the earth. (father of. Map projection process of displaying a 3d object (the earth) on a 2d surface (paper). Latitude parallels that are aligned east-west across the globe. Longitude angular distance (0 degrees-180 degrees) east or west as measured from the prime meridian (0 degrees) that passes thru the greenwich observatory in london. Prime meridian a meridian (line of longitude) at which the longitude is defined to be 0 degrees. Equator an imaginary line on the earth"s surface equidistant from the north pole and south pole, dividing the earth into the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere. Map scale the ratio of the distance between two places on a map and the actual distance between those two places on the surface of the earth. World geographic realm basic spatial unit in our world regionalization scheme.
