Who first found the equator?

Answer 1

On your map or globe, make a tiny dot that's exactly halfway between the north

and south poles. Then turn the globe a bit and make another dot. Then make a

million or a trillion more, each one exactly halfway between the north and south

poles. When you have enough dots, they'll blend together to look like a line

around the Earth's 'middle', halfway between the poles. That's the equator.

Answer 2

Eratosthenes of Cyrene determined it around the time that he calculated the Earth's circumference. Eratosthenes determined that the distance between the cities of Syene and Alexandria in Egypt equaled roughly 1/50th of the Earth's circumference, and using this determined (if one accepts that he used the Egyptian stadion as his length of measure) within a 1% margin of error the exact circumference of the Earth. He divided the globe into "stadia."

Claudius Ptolemy further determined the location and existence of the equator and divided the globe into degrees of arc.

Consider that Eratosthenes lived in the 3rd century BCE, and Ptolemy was publishing his work around 150 AD (roughly 1300 years before Nicholas Copernicus).

Answer 3

The equator began appearing on maps in the 16th century. No one knows who created it. It is the longest line of latitude on the planet spanning 24,901 miles.

Answer 4

Thomas Neale discovered the equator in 1349

Answer 5

no body execpt for god because he was on this earth before all of us

Answer 6

Longitude was never discovered. It is just set by the geometry of the earth and in some standards also taking use of the references of hours and minutes.

Answer 7

late Middle English: from medieval Latin aequator, in the phrase circulus aequator diei et noctis 'circle equalizing day and night,' from Latin aequare 'make equal'

Answer 8

-- At the time when they invented it and gave it that definition.

-- The equator is not the center of the earth.