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The Greek invented latitude and longitude. Someone devised a concept of using a reference system based on the shape of the Earth, with the coordinates (latitude, longitude) expressed as degrees.

In the 3rd century BC Erathosthenes proposed a system of latitude and longitude for a map.

The following century (2nd century BC) Hipparchus was the first to use the above system to uniquely specify certain places on th Earth.

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