Hans_lune Wrote:
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> I have only the partial cite above. Does anyone
> know what book/paper this might be? What title?
> Comes from a gentlemen who insists that said cite
> has a reference in it that the ancient Egyptians
> had the Atur measurement which was their word for
> 'latitude', it is a measurement but seems to be
> like a league.

In order to have "latitude" they have to know how big the Earth is and they need grid-based map systems. I concur that the only usage I see for it is as a measurement that's about a league in length.

The earliest map that I know of that has latitude and longitude is Ptolemy's map.

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