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Re: Location, Location, Location

From: Jean-Michel Margot <jmmargot~at~mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:51:41 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
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At 10:28 PM 7/18/01 +0100, Harry Hayfield wrote:
>Ever since I downloaded it from the Internet "To the Moon and Back" has been
>causing me grief, in terms of figuring out where something is.
>
>According to the book, Stones Hill is "situated eighteen hundred feet above
>the level of the sea, in 27~at~ 7' N. lat. and 5@ 7' W. long. of the meridian
>of Washington"
>
>Now, this would suggest that it is located at 27° 7' North and as Washington
>is located at 77° 1' 48" West, that would place it at 84° 8' 48" West of the
>Greenwich Meridian.
>
>I then logged into the Geochache website, and placed the above GPS location
>and asked members if they could take a picture of the location, expecting a
>flood of photos. No photos arrived, but instead this did:
>
>"It's in the water"
>
>Looking at a map I did indeed note that he was correct.
>
>So my question is "Was there ever an island at 27° 7' North Latitude and 84°
>8' 48" West Longitude and if so what happened to it?"
>
>Harry Hayfield


It's always better to go back to the source. In reality, what you can read
in chapter "Stone's Hill" of DE LA TERRE A LA LUNE is the following:: the
Columbiad's position is 27° 7' N and 5° 7' W of the Washington meridian,
which means (and there is a footnote precising it) 83° 25' W of the Paris
meridian. According to these coordinates, there is a Florida map showing
the Columbiad in Florida, south of the Okeeechobee lake, by 27° 7' N and
83° 25' W Paris.

Jules Verne, as French writer, used always the Paris meridian!


Jean-Michel Margot
Received on Thu 19 Jul 2001 - 03:42:46 IDT

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