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  If anyone has a question why it took so long to get universal agreement on
the meridian at Greenwich as the one-and-only zero longitude line, here is an
excerpt from Lecky (1917 edition):

  The starting point [for determination of longitude] is the meridian at the
transit instrument at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich; and, by
international consent, it has recently been arranged that this will in future
be considered the First Meridian for the entire globe, and foreign charts
graduated accordingly.  At the Conference the French representative stood on
his dignity and was the only dissenter---on what grounds the writer does not
know, as England for many a long day has certainly taken the lead in maritime
matters. . . .

  With that most reasonable explanation, it is difficult to see why
controversy continued to rage for so long among so many about so little.

  Mal Misuraca
  Passage East
  Sausalito
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