Timeline for Why is the thing dual to a "meridian" called a "longitude"?
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| Jul 9, 2021 at 17:34 | vote | accept | Calvin McPhail-Snyder | ||
| Jul 8, 2021 at 18:33 | comment | added | markvs | You know chicken salad is not the opposite of tuna, salmon is the opposite of tuna, because salmon swim against the current, and the tuna swim with it. | |
| Jul 8, 2021 at 2:00 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 8, 2021 at 0:08 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 20:00 | answer | added | Michael Hardy | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 19:15 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | I have no proof, but a plausible explanation for the naming may be that the osculating planes of the knot as a smooth spatial curve is interpreted as the equatorial plane of the osculating sphere whose "geographic" coordinates are adoptet | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 18:56 | comment | added | Calvin McPhail-Snyder | Sometimes "latitude" is also used to mean "line of constant latitude" even though "parallel" is apparently more accurate. | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 18:55 | comment | added | Manfred Weis | The lines that complement the meridians are called the parallels | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 18:48 | comment | added | მამუკა ჯიბლაძე | Maybe because it goes along the knot... Besides, geographical "latitude" is not a curve, it is rather a number, namely, the angle measure along the geographical meridian from the equator to the given point. | |
| Jul 7, 2021 at 18:00 | history | asked | Calvin McPhail-Snyder | CC BY-SA 4.0 |