Hello and welcome to my stamps blog. It's a warm sunny day in the American Midwest and dry. We need some rain.
In the Sunday Stamps tour of the alphabet we are up to the letter "G". I am sharing another stamp I found in the stamps box, an older British stamp:
This commemorates the setting up of the Greenwich meridian as the prime meridian for all the world. This is to designate a 0 line of longitude, and to measure east and west of this line. I thought this was determined earlier, say in the 1700's, but no. Different countries had different prime meridians of longitude.
Wikipedia explains more HERE, and another web page explains it HERE.
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6 comments:
I have stood on what turns out to be the historic Greenwich meridian, having read the Greenwich link I learn it has moved 102 miles to the east. Guess one would have us a sat nav to find it now!
I think it has moved 102 meters to the east, for satellite navigation and cell phones.
During some years, I crossed it everyday to get home (in Spain, I mean). There is a road sign that always made me smile. Great stamp!
A bit sad that it was moved. That's a very interesting article in the second link. The observatory is a beautiful building.
Awesome stamp! Thanks for the links.
If one pays attention to the stamp, you can see how much of the line crosses over water and not land. I don't think I really thought about that before.
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