At 0:45 +0000 02/12/4, David Jones wrote:
But the longitude for the Paris meridian, measured from Greenwich, is not 2� 50' E. The correct figure is 2� 20' E.
Quite right. I don't why I took this wrong value of 2� 50'. All references give for Paris (observatory) latitude 48� 50' N longitude 2� 20 E
There were some celebrations in 1999, picnics and tree planting etc. along a line that stretched from Dunkirk to Barcelona.
Yes, but the organizers of this event (the architect Paul Chemetov) gave a tolerance of a few kilometers on both sides of the meridian line. To avoid planting a tree in the middle of a church or of a river... Louis
