In the Middle of Anywhere
Nov 6 · 2 min read

Navigating the world has long been a difficult undertaking, as it was hard to determine your longitude at sea. Some excellent books about the history and at times crazy experiments to find a proven system for determining longitude have been written, not least Umberto Eco’s The Island of the Day Before. Which is a good holiday read, by the way. And when it comes to longitude determination, in our day Greenwich can in some respects be considered…


