Meridian Quotes
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You are invited to come to see the Earth turn, tomorrow, from three to five, at Meridian Hall of the Paris Observatory.
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More Meridian Quotes
All places, all airs make unto me one country; I am in England, everywhere, and under any meridian.
— 1634-5 Religio Medici (published1643), pt.2, section1.
They may veil their eyes, but they cannot hideThe sun’s meridian glow;The heel of a priest may tread thee down,And a tyrant work thee woe:But never a truth has been destroyed;They may curse it, and call it crime;Pervert and betray, or slander and slayIts teachers for a time.But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,As round and round we run;And the truth shall ever come uppermost,And justice shall be done.
charles mackay— "Eternal Justice", Stanza 4
In Indian astronomy, the prime meridian is the great circle of the Earth passing through the north and south poles, Ujjayin? and La?k?, where La?k? was assumed to be on the Earth's equator .
— In Aryabhatiya quoted in: J J O'Connor and E F Robertson Aryabhata the Elder, School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland
Talk not of temples, there is one Built without hands, to mankind given; Its lamps are the meridian sun And all the stars of heaven, Its walls are the cerulean sky, Its floor the earth so green and fair, The dome its vast immensity All Nature worships there!
— David Vedder, Temple of Nature
'What's the good of Mercator's North Poles and Equators, Tropics, Zones and meridian lines?' So the Bellman would cry: and the crew would reply, 'Theyare merely conventional signs!'
— 1876 The Hunting of the Snark,'Fit the Second: The Bellman's Speech'.
