Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer, "A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication" (Harvard UP, 2021)
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Google Maps - Longitude
Longitude is the degree north or south of the equator, and has been pretty easy to figure out for millennia. But it's a requirement before you can have a global shipping system. And anyone who's ever used gogle maps should care about this. The origins of our ease of of mapping the earth are dependent upon figuring out longitude.
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