Meridian Quotes 

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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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.

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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

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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

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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

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I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.


— Wolsey, scene ii

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'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'.

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