Latitude and longitude

Ancient · Household · 100

TL;DR

Latitude and longitude - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Latitude and longitude - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Sphericity of the Earth World map

Required Knowledge

  • Maps

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Latitude and longitude:

Mercator projection

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Path Dependence

Related Inventions

Sphericity of the Earth World map Mercator projection

Tags

Geography

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