All 3 Uses of
prime meridian
in
The Da Vinci Code
- Long before the establishment of Greenwich as the prime meridian, the zero longitude of the entire world had passed directly through Paris, and through the Church of Saint-Sulpice.†
Chpt 21-22 *
- The brass marker in Saint-Sulpice was a memorial to the world's first prime meridian, and although Greenwich had stripped Paris of the honor in 1888, the original Rose Line was still visible today.†
Chpt 21-22
- The earth's original prime meridian.†
Chpt 105
Definition:
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(prime meridian) the meridian (line of longitude) at zero degrees longitude used to measure distances east and west