There the captain fixed his position and used a chronometer to calculate his longitude, which he double-checked against his previous observations of hour angles. Then he told me:
“Professor Aronnax, we’re in longitude 137 degrees 15’ west—”
“West of which meridian?” I asked quickly, hoping the captain’s reply might give me a clue to his nationality.
“Sir,” he answered me, “I have chronometers variously set to the meridians of Paris,
There the captain fixed his position and used a chronometer to calculate his longitude, which he double-checked against his previous observations of hour angles. Then he told me:
“Professor Aronnax, we’re in longitude 137 degrees 15’ west—”
“West of which meridian?” I asked quickly, hoping the captain’s reply might give me a clue to his nationality.
“Sir,” he answered me, “I have chronometers variously set to the meridians of Paris,
