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Longitude

Short History Of... by Noiser

Jul 26, 202655:15Society & Culture

It was once one of the great unsolved problems of the early modern world: the calculation of exactly how far east or west a given point was on the surface of the Earth. Longitude was a challenge that sat at the intersect...

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Longitude is an episode from Short History Of... by Noiser. It was once one of the great unsolved problems of the early modern world: the calculation of exactly how far east or west a given point was on the surface of the Earth. Longitude w...

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Published Jul 26, 2026, 55:15 long, audio available.

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