Talk:Meridian of Antwerp

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Verifiability?[edit]

Hi all. I thought about questioning the verifiability or even notability of the article but let me start discussion first. I've put a white line between "were based." and ""This city" because I thought it was suggestive of a relation between the meridian and Mercator. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any. The article mentions Belgium, which was not created until 1830. The sources do not support the upper part of the article text. Google provides close to nothing.

I've done nearly all meridians for the Dutch Wikipedia and currently busy getting its equivalent of Prime meridian to FA status. It will include few words about "Antwerp" because there isn't much to go on. There's a Noon mark (aka meridian line) in the cathedral that claims to be the meridian, but alas, no reliable sources (and it wasn't created until the 1830s). Cartographers from the Low Countries used Ferro, then experimented with the idea of a magnetic meridian and, when that failed, opted largely for Tenerife, or Paris. The inventor of triangulation for surveying, Gemma Frisius, wrote one line in 1533 referring to the Antwerp meridian, but that's all, really. Regards, Sander1453 (talk) 20:37, 2 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]