DescriptionLatitude and longitude graticule on a sphere.svg
English: Figure showing definition of latitude (φ) and longitude (λ) on a sphere. The graticule at intervals of 10 degrees is taken from Sphere-wireframe.png at Commons.
I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into thepublic domain. This applies worldwide. In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so: I grant anyone the right to use this workfor any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
{{Information |Description={{en|1=Figure showing definition of latitude and longitude on a sphere. The graticule at intervals of 10 degrees is taken fromSphere-wireframe.png}} |Source={{own}} |Author=Peter Mercator |Date=20
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Short title
Sphere wireframe
Image title
Sphere wireframe
depicted with perspective projection
viewer distance from center: 10r line distancd: 10° line width: 2° axial tilt: 37.5° rotation: 7.5° base color: #22326b
plotted with several adapted cubic bezier-curves The plotcurves were calculated by some fancy python code. The bezier-curve controlpoints are placed on tangents of the function-curve. They are furthermore positioned in a way to minimize the average quadratic distance between the bezier-curve and the function. This gives an accuracy, so that the deviation is in no point greater than 0.00001.