Meridian (geography) and Ptolemy

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Difference between Meridian (geography) and Ptolemy

Meridian (geography) vs. Ptolemy

A (geographical) meridian (or line of longitude) is the half of an imaginary great circle on the Earth's surface, terminated by the North Pole and the South Pole, connecting points of equal longitude. Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος, Klaúdios Ptolemaîos; Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

Similarities between Meridian (geography) and Ptolemy

Meridian (geography) and Ptolemy have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Degree (angle), Equator, Latitude, Longitude.

Degree (angle)

A degree (in full, a degree of arc, arc degree, or arcdegree), usually denoted by ° (the degree symbol), is a measurement of a plane angle, defined so that a full rotation is 360 degrees.

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Equator

An equator of a rotating spheroid (such as a planet) is its zeroth circle of latitude (parallel).

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Latitude

In geography, latitude is a geographic coordinate that specifies the north–south position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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Longitude

Longitude, is a geographic coordinate that specifies the east-west position of a point on the Earth's surface.

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Meridian (geography) and Ptolemy Comparison

Meridian (geography) has 29 relations, while Ptolemy has 162. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 2.09% = 4 / (29 + 162).

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