Sentence examples for of longitude from inspiring English sources

The Commissioners of Longitude were not known as the Board of Longitude until around the 1760s.

The Longitude Prize Committee: a new Board of Longitude?

Accurate clocks are crucial for the determination of longitude at sea.

Jetlag is simple really: every 15 degrees of longitude is one hour.

For every extra inch of longitude, a man adds 2percenttoto his yearly income.

All lines of longitude on maps are reckoned in two directions from Greenwich.

An earlier version referred to the 60th parallel of longitude, rather than latitude.

He spends his days studying the sextant and working through the arithmetic of longitude and latitude.

Geological atlas projected to illustrate geographical explorations and surveys west of the 100th meridian of longitude.

Each degree of longitude west of Greenwich subtracts 240 seconds from Greenwich sidereal time.

Nevertheless, as one of the team researching the history of the Board of Longitude, I am fascinated by the notion that a new Longitude Committee will be formed.