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That the Conference proposes to the Governments here represented, the adoption of the meridian passing; through the centre of the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich, as the initial meridian for longitude.

Science - Page 417
1884
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Explanatory Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac

United States Naval Observatory. Nautical Almanac Office, Great Britain. Nautical Almanac Office - 1992 - 786 pages

...The resolutions of that conference included: "the adoption of the meridian passing through the center of the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude." "That from this meridian longitude shall be counted in two directions up to 180 degrees, east longitude...

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...scientific question. The question was soon called for the adoption of "the meridian passing through the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian of longitude." San Domingo voted against the sanctification of Greenwich; Brazil and France abstained....

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