All 8 Uses of
longitude
in
The Da Vinci Code
- On a globe, a Rose Line—also called a meridian or longitude—was any imaginary line drawn from the North Pole to the South Pole.†
Chpt 21-22 *
- There were, of course, an infinite number of Rose Lines because every point on the globe could have a longitude drawn through it connecting north and south poles.†
Chpt 21-22
- The question for early navigators was which of these lines would be called the Rose Line—the zero longitude—the line from which all other longitudes on earth would be measured.†
Chpt 21-22
- The question for early navigators was which of these lines would be called the Rose Line—the zero longitude—the line from which all other longitudes on earth would be measured.†
Chpt 21-22
- 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 Compass Rose helped travelers navigate, as did Rose Lines, the longitudinal lines on maps.†
Chpt 47-48
- This longitudinal Rose Line is the traditional marker of King Arthur's Isle of Avalon and is considered the central pillar of Britain's sacred geometry.†
Chpt 103-104
- The first zero longitude of the world.†
Chpt 105
Definition:
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(longitude) a measure of east/west (relative to the Prime Meridian) on the earth -- calculated by using imaginary vertical circles on the surface of the earth that pass through the north and south poles and at right angles to the equator