THINGS TO READ

THINGS TO WATCH

 

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time – Dava Sobel 

Longitude– TV Movie

THINGS TO LISTEN TO

THINGS TO DO

Sailing to Philadephia – Mark Knopfler (we didn’t talk about the Mason-Dixon Line, but it would have fit right in)

 

Check out these images of the Imago Mundi (Babylonian Map of the World – earliest known map in human history).

 

I mentioned you can see John Harrison’s Sea Clocks at the Horology Museum in London – I was wrong! You can see them at the Royal Museums Greenwich. Here’s a photo of the amazing H1.

 

Want to see what a map with Rhumb Lines looks like (hint – very overwhelming!) Check thisout.

 

OTHER WORKS CITED

 

“GIS for Urban Planning | Benefits, Applications, & Tools.” Unearthlabs.com, 2022.

History.com. "Treaty of Versailles." A&E Television Networks, LLC, n.d.29 October 2009.

Office of the Historian. "Treaty of Versailles." United States Department of State, n.d. Accessed 22 Apr. 2023.

Sobel, Dava. Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Walker Books. 2005.

Vance, Mishka. “Maps, Wayfinding, and the Discovery of Longitude.” New York Public Library Blog. 18 June 2021.