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基本解释

It took human navigators centuries to figure out how to determine longitude in their long-distance voyages.‘This
人类航海家花费几百年的时间来解决远距离航行中辨认经度的难题。
Latitude and longitude in Lucene terms are often represented as two different fields, but this can, in some applications, have implications for performance.
Lucene 词汇中的纬度和经度通常表示为两个不同的字段，但是这在一些应用程序中可能会影响性能。
So, if you've learned about latitude and longitude in geography, well, phi and theta you can think of as latitude and longitude except with slightly different conventions.
如果你们学过地理中的经纬度的话，就可以把φ和θ看成纬度和经度,当然有些小的区别。

Yet it seemed to those seeking to solve the longitude problem that the only solution was in the moon and stars.
The clock could tell the correct time in two places, meeting the requirements for learning longitude on the sea.
In the sixteenth century, one astronomer suggested that navigators could observe the moon as it passed in front of different known stars to tell longitude.

As a seafaring nation, Britain depended on accurate navigation, and determining longitude on the open ocean depended on comparing local time to the time in a place where the longitude was known.
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