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When people started to travel a great deal of long distances they were in dire need of having to fix their position in order to understand where they are going to next.
Both the Polynecians and the Phoenicians made use of the heavens in order to calculate latitude.
Hipparchus was the first Greek astronomer who had successfully specified a location by using longitudes and latitudesas the co-ordinates.
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